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In the Caucasus, There Is a Peace Agreement but Not Peace

  • April 10, 2021
  • Georgi Derluguian
(Jacobin) Last fall, Armenia was devastated by a six-week war with its neighbor Azerbaijan, ending in the deployment of Russian peacekeepers across the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh. Yet the “peace agreement” has…
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Russia’s policy in the “frozen conflicts” of the post-soviet space: from ethno-politics to geopolitics

  • April 17, 2020
  • Peter Rutland
(Caucasus Survey) Abstract: The article analyzes the evolution of Russia’s policy in secessionist conflicts in the post-Soviet space in 1991–2018. The authors differentiate the patterns of Russian policy between the…
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Centenary Anniversaries of Independence: Baltic, East European, and Caucasian Contexts

  • March 29, 2019
  • Andrey Makarychev
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In 2018, many former Soviet republics celebrated their anniversaries of independence gained by the collapse of the Russian empire one hundred years ago. These remembrance events…
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Religion, Conflict, and Stability in the Former Soviet Union (Chapters by Zhemukhov, Kassenova)

  • January 22, 2018
  • PONARS Eurasia
(RAND) Despite the rise of religion as a visible force in the sociopolitical life of post-Soviet countries, little is known about how religion has contributed or may yet contribute to tensions…
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Religious Institutions and Democratization

  • August 8, 2017
  • Kornely Kakachia
(Caucasus Analytical Digest) The relationship between religion and politics continues to be an important theme disputed and interpreted differently amongst politicians and scholars. The same is true for the relationship between…
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Kassenova: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan especially face threats of extremism from within

  • June 27, 2016
  • PONARS Eurasia
(NBC News) After waging war on Islamist militants within its borders for decades, Russia now faces the prospect of such extremism along its southern frontier in Central Asia. On June…
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Unfreezing the Status Quo in the Caucasus

  • May 13, 2016
  • Sergei Markedonov
(Carnegie) The outbreak of fighting between Armenians and Azerbaijanis in the Nagorny Karabakh conflict zone has ushered in a new period of uncertainty and confrontation in the South Caucasus. A…

“Hybrid” vs. “Compound” War: Lessons From The Ukraine Conflict

  • November 20, 2015
  • Sergey Minasyan
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Soon after the outbreak of open conflict in Ukraine, it became fashionable to interpret the conflict as a kind of “hybrid warfare.”[1] However, the military and…
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New Policy Memo: The Return of Islamic State Fighters: The Impact on the Caucasus and Central Asia

  • August 25, 2015
  • Mark Kramer
The devastating civil war in Syria and the long-standing turmoil in Iraq have been magnets for jihadists (and aspiring jihadists) from the Caucasus and Central Asia. No sooner had a…

The Return of Islamic State Fighters: The Impact on the Caucasus and Central Asia

  • August 25, 2015
  • Mark Kramer
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