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Diaspora Politics on Abkhazia: Involved in Half Capacity

  • March 24, 2021
  • Eiki Berg and Emel Almira Sarıoğlu
(De Facto States blog) President Aslan Bzhania had an important meeting with his counterpart Vladimir Putin on November 12, 2020. With the ongoing global pandemic and subsequent collapse of the…
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Transnistria’s European Drive: A Means to What End?

  • November 23, 2020
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(Geopolitics) Abstract: This paper explores the geopolitical role that a de facto state may play while operating in the context of patron-client relations and engagement without recognition framework. This is especially pronounced…
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Will Armenia Recognize the Independence of Nagorno-Karabakh?

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(defactostates.ut.ee) Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has not been recognized by any UN member state, including Armenia. There have been some rumors about Uruguay’s willingness to recognize NKR’s independence as well as Tuvalu’s intentions to establish…
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Land for peace: can territorial adjustments bring about recognition of self-determination claims?

  • July 9, 2020
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(Territory, Politics, Governance) Abstract: De facto states represent an anomalous sovereign condition. Their parent states are unable to regain control over the territory that de facto states possess, while the de…

Why the International Community Should Be More Accommodating to De Facto States

  • January 17, 2019
  • Eiki Berg
(PONARS Policy Memo) De facto states are notorious for their pariah status, constant security deficit, and embryonic institutions, producing the perception that they are states-in-the-making perpetually striving for sheer survival. Their…
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The Politics of International Interaction with de facto States: Conceptualising Engagement without Recognition

  • December 18, 2018
  • Eiki Berg
(Routledge) (Edited by Eiki Berg and James Ker-Lindsay) This comprehensive volume is the first systematic effort to explore the ways in which recognised states and international organisations interact with secessionist ‘de facto states’, while…
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Quest for Survival and Recognition: Insights into the Foreign Policy Endeavours of the Post-Soviet de facto States

  • August 3, 2018
  • Eiki Berg
(Ethnopolitics) (Co-authored with Kristel Vits) There is lack of proper accounts of the foreign policy practices of de facto state authorities. There is no common understanding for whether de facto states…
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The politics of unpredictability: Acc/secession of Crimea and the blurring of international norms

  • July 24, 2018
  • Eiki Berg
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  • May 1, 2018
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Religion and Soft Power in the South Caucasus | Articles by Berg, Makarychev, Valiyev, and Yatsyk

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