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COMMONWEALTH AND INDEPENDENCE IN POST-SOVIET EURASIA
Edited by Bruno Coppieters and Alexei Zverev, both at Vrije
Universiteit Brussel and Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center
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Analyses how the national elites in the independent states have
conceived their regional policies.
The demise of the Soviet Union in December 1991 was followed by
various attempts to create new forms of integration for the new states
of Eurasia. The contributors to this volume analyse in detail how the
national elites in the independent states have conceived their
regional policies. Georgia failed to strengthen its sovereignty
through integration into Western institutions. Its self-image as a
Western and European country sharply contrasts with the Western
attitude towards that country. The civil and ethnic wars in Georgia
were considered by Western governments as peripheral to their own
interests.
The material on the Caucasus, Central Asia, Ukraine and Russia show
that while unifying projects restricted to Eurasia, like the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), are commonly considered to
have a positive content - in the creation of political stability or
the development of economic links - each integration project is
encountering serious opposition. They are generally seen as a serious
limitation to the newly acquired independence, without it necessarily
being considered that they enhance regional stability. The fear
existed that the Russian-led CIS was heading for a Soviet Union Mark
II. The Caucasian Home is perceived as a threat for Russia�s
territorial integrity. The Black Sea-Baltic Union is seen as a
challenge to Russia�s interests in its near abroad. In this volume,
cultural factors are also taken into account in explaining the
difficulties of creating cohesive regional institutions.
Civilizational factors largely explain the growing estrangement of
Central Asia from Russia. Cultural affinities, on the other hand, do
not necessarily lead to integration. No pan-Slav nationalism links
Ukraine to Russia. Their mutual relations are primarily determined by
state interests.
Contents: The Georgian Perception of the West (Ghia Nodia); Georgia in
Europe: The Idea of a Periphery in International Relations (Bruno
Coppieters); The �Caucasian Home� and Pan-Turkist Aspirations (Hrant
Avetisian); �Caucasian Home�: A View from Azerbaijan (Rafig Aliev);
The Armenian and Azeri Communities in Georgia: On Georgia�s
Nationalities and Foreign Policies (Alexander Kukhianidze); Conflict
and Co-operation in Russo-Ukrainian Relations (Arkadi Moshes);
Ukrainian Foreign Policy: Between Russia and the West (Sergei Vlasov);
Turning Away from Russia: New Directions for Central Asia (Alexei
Malashenko); Russian and Western Interests in Preventing, Managing and
Settling Conflicts in the Former Soviet Union (Dmitri Trenin);
Conclusions: The Failure of Regionalism in Eurasia and the Western
Ascendancy over Russia�s Near Abroad (Bruno Coppieters).
1998 ISBN 0 7146 4881 7 cloth �37.50/$52.50 232
pages ISBN 0 7146 4480 3 paper
�16.50/$24.50
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CONFLICTING LOYALTIES AND THE STATE IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIA AND EURASIA
Edited by Michael Waller, Keele University, Bruno Coppieters, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel and Alexei Malashenko, Institute of Oriental
Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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� An analysis of the conflicting ethnic, religious and regional
loyalties with which the state-building process in the Soviet Union�s
successor states, and also in Russia itself, must contend.
This book analyses the political impact that ethnic, confessional and
regional factors have had in the reconfiguration of the former Soviet
space. It contains a number of thematic chapters - on Soviet
nationality policy, on Islam in Russia today and on Bolshevik policies
towards Islam in the early Soviet period. These synoptic chapters
provide a framework in which are set selected case studies. They
include the exclave of Kaliningrad, separated now from the rest of
Russia by independent states; Ukraine, where regional tensions are
losing some of their ethnic edge; the Crimea within Ukraine, a small
territory rich in tensions and home to what was the Soviet Black Sea
fleet, and home also to a returning population of Tatars expelled in
the Stalin years; Tatarstan, engineer of a �model� of autonomy within
the Russian federation; and Tajikistan, where regional tensions with
religious overtones and important international implications, led to
the eruption of a violent and destructive civil war.
The final chapter relates the evolution of these conflicting loyalties
to the global weakening of the nation-state, and distinguishes what is
particular to the Soviet state and its demise from that more
significant questions of analytical importance posed by the collapse
of a major contemporary multi-national state.
Contents: Form and Content in Soviet and Post-Soviet Nationality and
Regional Policies (Bruno Coppieters); Ethnic Conflicts in Ukraine
(Natalia Lakiza-Sachuk); Conflicting Loyalties in the Crimea (Natalia
Belitser and Oleg Bodruk); The Kaliningrad Region of Russia in a New
Geographical Setting (Yuri Zverev); Qualified Sovereignty: The
Tatarstan Model for Resolving Conflicting Loyalties (Alexei Zverev);
Tajikstan I: The Regional Dimension of Conflict (Aziz Niyazi);
Tajikstan II: The Regional Conflict in Confessional and International
Context (Said Akhmedov); Russian Nationalism and Islam (Alexei
Malashenko); Soviet Religious Policies in Central Asia, 1918�30
(Mustafo Bazarov); Conclusions: Conflicts of Loyalty in the Soviet
Union and its Successor States (Michael Waller and Alexei Malashenko).
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1998 ISBN 0 7146 4882 5 cloth �37.50/$54.50 264
pages ISBN 0 7146 4479 X paper �16.50/$24.50
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