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Instead of resurrecting old images and nourishing new narratives about a 'New Cold War', Post-Soviet Conflict Potentials features politically and legally oriented critical investigations into conflict potentials and dynamics in the post-Soviet region and beyond.
List of contents
Introduction: Post-Soviet Conflict Potentials 1. Conflict Over Peace? The United States' and Russia's Diverging Conceptual Approaches to Peace and Conflict Settlement 2. The Politics of International Law in the Post-Soviet Space: Do Georgia, Ukraine, and Russia 'Speak' International Law in International Politics Differently? 3. Evolving Dynamics of Societal Security and the Potential for Conflict in Eastern Ukraine 4. A Critical Political Cosmopolitanism for Conflict De-escalation: The Crimean Example 5. Accepting Alien Rule? State-Building Nationalism in Georgia's Azeri Borderland Afterword
About the author
Cindy Wittke is Leader of the Political Science Research Group at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg (Germany) and PI of 'Between Conflict and Cooperation: The Politics of International Law in the Post-Soviet Space', a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (PolVR, 01UC1901).
Summary
Instead of resurrecting old images and nourishing new narratives about a ‘New Cold War’, Post-Soviet Conflict Potentials features politically and legally oriented critical investigations into conflict potentials and dynamics in the post-Soviet region and beyond.
