Robert Nalbandov - Foreign Interventions in Ethnic Conflicts

FOREIGN INTERVENTIONS IN ETHNIC CONFLICTS

Series Editor: Professor Nana K. Poku, John Ferguson Professor,
Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK

Globalisation is changing the world dramatically, and a very public debate is taking place about the form, extent and significance of these changes. At the centre of this debate lie conflicting claims about the forces and processes shaping security. As a result, notions of inequality, poverty and the cultural realm of identity politics have all surfaced along side terrorism, environmental changes and bio-medical weapons as essential features of the contemporary global political landscape. In this sense, the debate on globalisation calls for a fundamental shift from a status quo political reality to one that dislodges states as the primary referent, and instead sees states as a means and not the end to various security issues, ranging from individual security to international terrorism. More importantly, centred at the cognitive stage of thought, it is also a move towards conceiving the concept of insecurity in terms of change.

The series attempts to address this imbalance by encouraging a robust and multi-disciplinary assessment of the asymmetrical nature of globalisation. Scholarship is sought from areas such as: global governance, poverty and insecurity, development, civil society, religion, terrorism and globalisation.

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ROBERT NALBANDOV
University of St Andrews, UK

First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing

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Foreign interventions in ethnic conflicts. -- (Global security in a changing world)

1. Ethnic conflict. 2. Ethnic conflict--Case studies. 3. Conflict management--International cooperation. 4. Conflict management--International cooperation--Case studies. 5. Mediation, International. 6. Mediation, International--Case studies. 7. Security, International. 8. Security, International--Case studies.

I. Title II. Series

327.1'7-dc22

Nalbandov, Robert.

Foreign interventions in ethnic conflicts / by Robert Nalbandov.

p. cm. -- (Global security in a changing world)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7546-7862-5 (hardback)

1. Intervention (International law) 2. Ethnic conflict--Prevention--International cooperation. 3. Conflict management--International cooperation. 4. Armed conflict--International cooperation. 5. Security, International. I. Title.

JZ6368.N35 2009

341.5'84--dc22

2009026050

ISBN 9780754678625 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315582795 (ebk)

The book is the product of research at the School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK, with the generous grant of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRS). I am enormously grateful to Dr. Erin Jenne for her rigorous support and friendly guidance during my research. I would like to extend my high appreciation and gratitude to Dr. Rick Fawn from the University of St. Andrews whose advice and comments during earlier versions of the Georgian chapter, as well as my overall activities at St. Andrews helped me a lot. I am grateful to the Munk Center for International Studies, University of Toronto, where I conducted the research for the Chadian and Somalian chapters. I also benefited from numerous conferences and round-tables where I presented different drafts of the book chapters and which allowed me to incorporate valuable comments of their participants. Finally, I would like to thank Irakli Machaidze and Dr. Basil Germond for helping me with the research on the legal documents and agreements in relation to the French interventions in Chad.