- İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Araştırmaları Dergisi
- Vol: 9 Issue: 5
- Separatist Entities-Unrecognized Republics In South Caucasus After Disintegration of Soviet Union (H...
Separatist Entities-Unrecognized Republics In South Caucasus After Disintegration of Soviet Union (Hıstorıcal-Legal Analysıs)
Authors : Zaur Mammadov, Nurlana Melikli
Pages : 3440-3455
Doi:10.15869/itobiad.783136
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Publication Date : 2020-12-29
Article Type : Research
Abstract :Presented article analyses separatist entities-unrecognized republics in South Caucasus and their historical-legal status which emerged after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. At first, theoretical investigations and its results of unrecognized state conception in the international system and academic literature have been reflected. Historical-legal status of the South Caucasian unrecognized republics has been analysed on the basis of the 1936 and 1977th Soviet Constitutions. Also their autonomy and separatism stages has been investigated in the frame of historical time – Soviet period and Soviet continuation. At the same time, the essence of the "Geneva Law”, the "Helsinki Act” in the system of international relations was revealed and studied in the context of the unrecognized republics formed in the South Caucasus. At the end of the investigation concluded that unrecognized republics in South Caucasus are illegal and have no status in international arena.Keywords : The Soviet Union, South Caucasus, separatist entities, so called “Abkhazia Republic”, so called “Nagorno-Karabakh Republic”, so called “South Ossetia Republic”