Ukraine--Crimea--Russia : triangle of conflict
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Ukraine--Crimea--Russia : triangle of conflict
(Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society, 47)
Ibidem-Verlag, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-247)
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Description
The Crimea was the only region of Ukraine in the 1990s where separatism arose and inter-ethnic conflict potentially could have taken place between the Ukrainian central government, ethnic Russians in the Crimea, and Crimean Tatars. Such a conflict would have inevitably drawn in Russia and Turkey. Russia had large numbers of troops in the Crimea within the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine also was a nuclear military power until 1996.This book analyses two inter-related issues. Firstly, it answers the question why Ukraine-Crimea-Russia traditionally have been a triangle of conflict over a region that Ukraine, Tatars and Russia have historically claimed. Secondly, it explains why inter-ethnic violence was averted in Ukraine despite Crimea possessing many of the ingredients that existed for Ukraine to follow in the footsteps of inter-ethnic strife in its former Soviet neighbourhood in Moldova (Trans-Dniestr), Azerbaijan (Nagorno Karabakh), Georgia (Abkhazia, South Ossetia), and Russia (Chechnya).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Tables Introduction 1. Borders: Theory and Practice 2. Regionalism and Separatism in Ukraine 3. Russia-Ukraine: The Border Issue 4. Ukraine-Crimea-Russia: Triangle of Conflict 5. Ukrainian Policies to the Crimea in the 1990s 6. Elections and Constitution Making in the Crimea, 1994-2002 7. Crimea and Security Forces Bibliography on Nation Building and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Ukraine and the Crimea
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