POST-SOVIET DISORDER : WAR IN CHECHNİA
Authors : Bülent Gökay
Pages : 25-37
Doi:10.1501/Intrel_0000000151
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Publication Date : 1994-05-01
Article Type : Research
Abstract :In the post-Cold War world, the focus of international security concern shifted from the nuclear stand-off betwecn two supcr povvers to the mosaic of deep ethnic tensions. Since the cnd of the Soviet system, it has become increasingly evident that the Caucasus is one of the most worrying trouble spots. There are half a dozen potential border disputcs and more than twcnty significant ethnic groups in the region. In this short article, I vvould like to concentrate on a recent dispute in the region: the vvar in Chechnia. I will outline some of the complcxities of this fascinating qucstion. I vvill try to identify the basis of age-long problems and draw some comparisons vvith the past and presen t.Keywords : POST-SOVIET, DISORDER, WAR IN CHECHNİA