Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia: A Legal AppraisalThe 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'. |
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Contents
Abkhazia | 8 |
SELFDETERMINATION | 21 |
External selfdetermination | 35 |
AUTONOMY THEORY AND PRACTICE | 54 |
Autonomys future | 68 |
MINORITY RIGHTS IN AUTONOMIES | 76 |
NAGORNOKARABAKH | 83 |
Direct talks | 92 |
REFLECTIONS ON RECOMMENDATIONS | 171 |
Monetary policy | 184 |
A High Representative? | 197 |
THE POSTDAYTON ENVIRONMENT | 213 |
Eastern Slavonia and the Sarajevoeffect | 227 |
THE POSTSOVIET ENVIRONMENT | 235 |
PEACE IN THE CAUCASUS | 250 |
The European Outline Convention on Transfrontier Cooperation | 263 |
Refugeesdisplaced persons | 99 |
ABKHAZIA | 114 |
Gali district | 120 |
SOUTH OSSETIA | 133 |
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR | 143 |
Since submission | 277 |
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