Publication: Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. A Legal Appraisal

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Publication: Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South
Ossetia. A Legal Appraisal


Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia
A Legal Appraisal

by Tim Potier
 
The conflicts in the South Caucasus are now a decade old, but still
appear impervious to solution. The hopes that independence raised have
been dashed by an insidious cocktail of past and present regional
hegemony, historical antipathy and Soviet planning. Armenia,
Azerbaijan and Georgia, thus, continue to wait for their long awaited
Spring.

In a region where Western academic writing has focussed, during the
last decade, almost exclusively on the dynamics of regional security
and Great Power rivalry, even in the context of conflict, this volume
provides an important and necessary legal appraisal of the possible
processes and structures which may, ultimately, facilitate the finding
of constitutional settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South
Ossetia.

In the work, Tim Potier, an academic lawyer with much experience in
the Caucasus, has written a powerful but dispassionate account which
will prove not only to be of use to academics, diplomats and
government officials working in the region, but also be of lasting
value to the ongoing development of the international law on
self-determination and autonomy. Dr Potier also considers the fate of
what he prefers to term, 'regionally non-dominant titular peoples'.
 
Preface. 
Introduction. 
1. History of the Conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South
Ossetia. 
2.Self-Determination. 
3. Autonomy: Theory and Practice. 
4. 'Minority' Rights in Autonomies. 
5. Nagorno-Karabakh. 
6. Abkhazia. 
7. South Ossetia. 
8. Recommendations for a Constitutional Settlement in Azerbaijan and
Georgia. 
9. Reflections on Recommendations. 
10. The Post-Dayton Environment.
11. The Post-Soviet Environment. 
12. 'Peace in the Caucasus'. 
13. Transfrontier Cooperation in the Caucasus. 
Conclusion. 
Update. 
Bibliography. 
Maps.
 
Kluwer Law International, The Hague
November 2000, 336 pp., Hardbound
ISBN/ISSN: 9041114777
Price: NLG 225.00 /USD 110.00 /GBP 70.00

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