Conflict and Peace in Eurasia
Focusing on a range of Eurasian conflicts, including Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, this book offers contemporary perspectives on the ongoing conflicts in Eurasia, with an emphasis on the attempts towards peace.
The book brings into focus how various factors such as ethnicity, religion, border disputes, resources and animosities inherited from the past play crucial roles in these conflicts. It questions whether developments in Eurasia affect other conflicts across the globe, and if differences between parties can be resolved without pulling the relations beyond adjustable limits. The book goes on to look at how tricky the path to peace could be, and furthers the development of a framework of study of Eurasian conflicts in the post-Soviet world, while taking into account both internal and external variables in analysing these conflicts. It is a useful contribution to Central Asian Politics and Security Studies.
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra is Assistant Professor of South and Central Asian Studies at the Central University of Punjab, India. His areas of expertise are conflict, peace and development and strategic aspects of Eurasian politics.
Central Asia research forum
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School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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Contributors
Franoise Companjen is affiliated to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences as a lecturer. She specialises in civil society and democracy building in the South Caucasus. As the managing director of Caucasus Interconnect, she organises debates on the South Caucasus, Georgia in particular, connecting academics, civil servants and consultants.
Emanuela C. Del Re is a professor at the University Niccol Cusano of Rome (Italy), teaching political sociology. She has expertise in the areas of geopolitics, conflict studies and security issues, with a focus on the Balkans, Caucasus and North Africa. She has become a consultant for many international institutions and a member of prominent networks and think-tanks. She has worked as an international electoral observer for the UN, EU and OSCE on many missions. She is a contributing editor to the leading Italian geopolitical review Limes and the Italian Review on Intelligence Gnosis. She is the founding chairperson of EPOS International Mediating and Negotiating Operational Agency.
Andrew Foxall is a lecturer in Human Geography at Queen's University Belfast. He holds a BSc (Hons) from the University of Plymouth, an MSc from the University of Birmingham, and completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2011. His research focuses primarily on the post-Soviet North Caucasus, although he has also published on Russian politics, energy and the environment in post-Soviet Eurasia and geopolitics in the Russian Arctic.