ABSTRACT

Focusing on a range of Eurasian conflicts, including Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, this book offers contemporary perspectives on the ongoing conflicts in the Eurasia, with an emphasis on the attempts towards peace.

The book brings into focus how various factors such as ethnicity, religion, border disputes, resources, and animosities inherited from the past play crucial role in these conflicts. It questions whether developments in Eurasia affect other conflicts across the globe, and if differences between parties can be resolved without pulling the relations beyond adjustable limits. The book goes on to look at how tricky the path to peace would be, and furthers the development of a framework of study of Eurasian conflicts in the post-Soviet world, while taking into account both internal and external variables in analyzing these conflicts. It is a useful contribution to Central Asian and Caucasian Politics and Security Studies.

chapter |22 pages

Introduction

Contextualising Eurasian conflicts and prospects of peace

chapter |18 pages

2 From the Balkans to the Caucasus

Paradoxes of the precedents in a post-Balkan perspective

chapter |19 pages

3 Mapping ethnic relations

Cartography and conflict management in the North Caucasus, Russia

chapter |15 pages

5 Subtle line between self-defence and war

South Ossetia 2008

chapter |15 pages

7 Kyrgyzstan

Conflict and prospects of peace

chapter |25 pages

8 Southern Kurdistan

From conflict zone to subregional integration in Greater Eurasia

chapter |16 pages

11 Linking peace and development

An imperative for conflict transformation in Kashmir