Post-Soviet Separatism in Historical Perspective / Jan Claas Behrends -- Abkhazia, Transnistria and North Cyprus : Recognition and Non-Recognition in Ceasefire and Trade Agreements / Bruno Coppieters -- The World-System and Post-Soviet De Facto States / Mikhail Minakov -- Small State or Big Bargainer? : Azerbaijan's and Georgia's Agency in Russia's and Turkey's Near Abroad / Petra Colmorgen -- War and State-Making in Ukraine : Forging a Civic Identity from Below? / Gwendolyn Sasse and Alice Lackner -- Internal Legitimacy and Governance in the Absence of Recognition : The Cases of the Donetsk and Luhansk "People's Republics" / Nataliia Kasianenko -- Post-Soviet Separatism in Historical Perspective / Jan Claas Behrends -- Index. Index.
Summary:
The USSR's dissolution resulted in the creation of not only fifteen recognized states but also of four non-recognized statelets: Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transnistria. Their polities comprise networks with state-like elements. Since the early 1990s, the four pseudo-states have been continously dependent on their sponsor countries (Russia, Armenia), and contesting the territorial integrity of their parental nation-states Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova. In 2014, the outburst of Russia-backed separatism in Eastern Ukraine led to the creation of two more para-states, the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR), whose leaders used the experience of older de facto states. In 2020, this growing network of de facto states counted an overall population of more than 4 million people. The essays collected in this volume address such questions as: How do post-Soviet de facto states survive and continue to grow? Is there anything specific about the political ecology of Eastern Europe that provides secessionism with the possibility to launch state-making processes in spite of international sanctions and counteractions of their parental states? How do secessionist movements become embedded in wider networks of separatism in Eastern and Western Europe? What is the impact of secessionism and war on the parental states? -- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society (SPPS) ; vol. 226
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