CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Gogidze, Shalva |
|---|---|
| Title | Resolving the South Caucasus Conflicts through International Intervention: The ESDP as a Viable Option |
| Summary | Frozen ethnic conflicts have become a persistent feature of modern international relations. They have gained particular relevance since the collapse of Communism in 1991, a period which was characterized by the breakout of fierce and bloody ethnic wars in the successor states of the Soviet Union. This problem of unresolved national conflicts is especially important for the South Caucasus region, all three states (Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia) of which have been embroiled in violent armed hostilities between different ethnicities since the beginning of the 1990s. In the meantime, the South Caucasus conflicts intensified the issue of peaceful conflict resolution through outside intervention on the world agenda, which resulted in the engagement of the OSCE and the UN mediators on the ground. However, given that none of the conflicting parties have reached a viable political compromise with each other, the conflicts are still at the frozen stage, causing serious political instabilities in the region. This thesis asks: what is the best strategy to peacefully solve the entrenched ethnic conflicts in the South Caucasus and which international actor possesses the appropriate capabilities to carry it out? |
| Supervisor | Papkov, Irina |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/gogidze_shalva.pdf |
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