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Post-Soviet Conflicts -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: The Post-Soviet Crisis -- PART I: THE POST-SOVIET SPACE IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM -- 1 The Rise of Putin's Russia and the Post-Soviet Conflicts -- 2 Georgia's Changing Strategic Situation -- PART II: THE CONFLICTS IN THE CAUCASUS -- 3 The Nagorno Karabakh Conflict: The Beginning of the Soviet End -- 4 Legitimacy Force and Power in the Conflict over South Ossetia -- 5 The Conflict over Abkhazia: Mutually Exclusive National Projects and Fragmented Statehood -- 6 Ajara: A Case in Conflict Avoidance -- 7 Chechnya: Interrupted Independence -- 8 Dagestan: A Silent War -- PART III: CONFLICTS AND DISPUTES IN CENTRAL ASIA -- 9 Long-Term Effects of Wartime Violence in Tajikistan -- 10 Communal Violence in Kyrgyzstan -- 11 Caspian Sea Dispute -- 12 Tatarstan: A Model of Peaceful Relations or Potential Spot of Conflict in Eurasia? -- PART IV: CLOSER TO EUROPE -- 13 Moldova's Breakaway Transnistria: The Origins, Nature, and Current Dynamics -- 14 Ukraine between "The Russian World" and the Black Sea -- 15 Occupied Territory, Interrupted Dreams, and Shattered Hopes: A Trilogy of Traumas of the Crimean Tatar People -- Appendix -- Index -- About the Contributors.
In the 30 years since the emergence of the post-Soviet conflicts things have both changed and remained the same - continuities and changes in post-Soviet conflicts are the primary themes of this volume - it addresses all major wars, civil wars, and rebellions in the former Soviet Union.