Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia: A Legal Appraisal

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2001 - 314 pages
The conflicts in the South Caucasus are now a decade old, but still appear impervious to solution. The hopes that independence raised have been dashed by an insidious cocktail of past and present regional hegemony, historical antipathy and Soviet planning. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, thus, continue to wait for their long awaited Spring. In a region where Western academic writing has focussed, during the last decade, almost exclusively on the dynamics of regional security and Great Power rivalry, even in the context of conflict, this volume provides an important and necessary legal appraisal of the possible processes and structures which may, ultimately, facilitate the finding of constitutional settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In the work, Tim Potier, an academic lawyer with much experience in the Caucasus, has written a powerful but dispassionate account which will prove not only to be of use to academics, diplomats and government officials working in the region, but also be of lasting value to the ongoing development of the international law on self-determination and autonomy. Dr Potier also considers the fate of what he prefers to term, regionally non-dominant titular peoples'.
 

Contents

Final Remarks
20
The UN covenants
26
Internalexternal selfdetermination
33
The rights of subrepublics
39
The future
45
AUTONOMY THEORY AND PRACTICE
54
The Sami
60
Autonomys potential
66
Gali district
120
SOUTH OSSETIA
133
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR
143
REFLECTIONS ON RECOMMENDATIONS
171
Monetary policy
184
A High Representative?
197
THE POSTDAYTON ENVIRONMENT
213
Eastern Slavonia and the Sarajevo effect
227

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73
MINORITY RIGHTS IN AUTONOMIES
76
NAGORNOKARABAKH
83
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88
Direct talks
92
Refugeesdisplaced persons
99
ABKHAZIA
114
THE POSTSOVIET ENVIRONMENT
235
PEACE IN THE CAUCASUS
250
The European Outline Convention on Transfrontier Cooperation
263
Since submission
277
Bibliography
291
Index
309
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