Author: John B. Dunlop
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: separatist, conflict, roots, chechnya, confronts, russia
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1998-09-28
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521636191
ISBN-13: 9780521636193

This book provides the background necessary to understand the reasons for the Russian military invasion of Chechnya in December 1994. The history of the Chechens is traced carefully, and their sufferings under the tsars and communists are documented. The role of the Chechen leader, Dudaev, and the breakdown in negotiations in 1994 are examined closely, as the author asks whether this bitter conflict could feasibly have been avoided.

Author: Dov Lynch
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace
Keywords: states, conflicts, facto, unresolved, engaging, separatist, eurasia
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2004-05
List price: $12.50
ISBN-10: 1929223544
ISBN-13: 9781929223541

In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, secessionist forces carved four de facto states from parts of Moldova, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. Ten years on, those states are mired in uncertainty. Beset by internal problems, fearful of a return to the violence that spawned them, and isolated and unrecognized internationally, they survive behind cease-fire lines that have temporarily frozen but not resolved their conflicts with the metropolitan powers. In this, the first in-depth comparative analysis of these self-proclaimed republics, Dov Lynch examines the logic that maintains this uneasy