Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia: A Legal AppraisalMartinus 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 |
13 | 73 |
MINORITY RIGHTS IN AUTONOMIES | 76 |
NAGORNOKARABAKH | 83 |
39 | 88 |
Direct talks | 92 |
Refugeesdisplaced persons | 99 |
ABKHAZIA | 114 |
Other editions - View all
Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia: A Legal Appraisal Tim Potier Limited preview - 2021 |
Common terms and phrases
Abkhaz Abkhazia and South according agreement Ajaria Åland Åland Islands April Ardzinba Armenian Article Assembly August authorities Azeri Baku Bosnia Caucasian Caucasus Charter conflict Constitution Croat cultural autonomy Dayton December Declaration elected English entities establish ethnic Georgian Foreign Minister former Gali District Georgian language Human Rights independence Interfax Interfax news agency international law ITAR-TASS July June Karabakh Lachin March Minority Rights Minsk Group Moscow Muslim Nagorno national minorities OMRI organisation OSCE paragraph parliament parties political population President principle Pursuing Balkan Peace recognised refugees regional or minority Report Republic of Abkhazia Republic of Ajaria Republic of Azerbaijan Republic of Georgia Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic of South respective RFE/RL RFE/RL Newsline Russian Federation secession self-government Sept Serbs settlement Shusha Snark South Ossetia Soviet status Stepanakert Sukhumi Tatarstan Tbilisi territorial integrity tion transfrontier cooperation Treaty Tskhinvali Union United Nations United Republic USSR Yerevan