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PUBL.- Conflict in the Caucasus: Implications for International Legal Order

posted by circassiankama on November, 2010 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

PUBL.- Conflict in the Caucasus: Implications for International Legal Order

Posted by: Christopher Waters <cwaters@uwindsor.ca>

Conflict in the Caucasus: Implications for International Legal Order

This book is indispensable reading for all interested in the
Euro-Asian region, and those searching for concrete examples of the
application of international law to inter-state conflict.

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=388643

Contents:

Foreword (Neil MacFarlane)

Introduction (James A. Green & Christopher Waters)

The Caucasus Conflict and the Role of Law (Christopher Waters)

Caucuses in the Caucasus: The Application of the Right of
Self-Determination (Robert McCorquodale & Kristin Hausler)

Passportization, Peacekeepers and Proportionality: The Russian Claim
of the Protection of Nationals Abroad in Self-Defence (James A. Green)

The International Court of Justice and the Provisional Measures Order
in the Georgia v. Russian Federation Case (Sandy Ghandhi)

Georgia, Russia and the Crisis of the Council of Europe: Inter-State
Applications, Individual Complaints, and the Future of the Strasbourg
Model of Human Rights Litigation (Bill Bowring)

A 'Sea of Tiny Houses': Novel Approaches to Ending Forced Displacement
Following the 2008 Russia-Georgia Conflict ...

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Open Democracy: The lightness of history in the Caucasus

posted by circassiankama on as ANALYSIS / OPINION

The lightness of history in the Caucasus

Thomas de Waal, 04th November 2010

The Caucasus is often depicted as a region of peoples locked in enduring and invariant nationalist enmity. The reality is more complex and therefore more hopeful, says Thomas de Waal.

Thomas de Waal is a Senior Associate for the Caucasus at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.

The Caucasus is often depicted as a region of peoples locked in enduring and invariant nationalist enmity. The reality is more complex and therefore more hopeful, says Thomas de Waal.

The south Caucasus is one of those places where people like to say that the "weight of history” lies heavily. Increasingly, I raise a dissenting voice. True, history lies all round you in this region, not least in its regular invocation by modern politicians. To name but one example: after his inauguration as president in January 2004, Mikheil Saakashvili chose to travel ...

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The National Interest: The Bumpy Road Between Moscow and Tblisi

posted by circassiankama on as ANALYSIS / OPINION

Published on The National Interest (http://nationalinterest.org)

Source URL (retrieved on Nov 4, 2010): http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/the-bumpy-road-between-moscow-tbilisi-4356

The Bumpy Road between Moscow and Tbilisi

November 3, 2010

Paul J. Saunders [2]

Two years after the August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia, the tiny Caucasus state is again becoming a potentially contentious issue between Washington and Moscow. And without care in both capitals, and in Tbilisi as well, Georgia could again set back not only the U.S.-Russian relationship but many broader U.S. foreign policy goals.

Notwithstanding obligatory statements about support for Georgia’s territorial integrity—which the United States is hardly in a position to restore after Russia’s occupation and recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia—the Obama Administration has essentially accepted the reality of a smaller Georgia outside NATO and has focused on other priorities in dealing with Moscow, most notably Iran, Afghanistan and the New START Treaty. Russia, for ...

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Mmegi Online: The Republic of Georgia threatens peace and security in the Caucasus

posted by circassiankama on as ANALYSIS / OPINION

The Republic of Georgia threatens peace and security in the Caucasus

Anatoly Ptitsa

Today after more than two years since the army of Mikhail Saakashvilli's Regime attacked the civil population of South Ossetia and the Russian peacemakers, the Republic of Georgia has not abandoned its aggressive course of confrontation and is bearing plans for revenge. Now the military power of Tbilisi (the capital of the Republic of Georgia) is actually higher than in August, 2008 not without the help of some foreign countries. The Republic of Georgia is substantially strengthening its armed forces giving priority to the airpower.

The Republic of Georgia has concentrated considerable troop masses along its borders with Abkhazia and South Ossetia. It insistently refuses to take obligations for non-application of force against Tskhinval and Sukhum (the capitals of South Ossetia and Abkhazia).

The Republic of Georgia withdrew itself from all peacemaking agreements and therefore put safety and security in the region ...

Russia: Other Points of View- Zakaev: The Whole Story

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September 29, 2010

ZAKAEV: THE WHOLE STORY

COMMENTARY

by Gordon Hahn

The Associated Press and other U.S. mainstream media have been reporting the arrest of former head of the Chechen government-in-exile by Polish authorities in recent days. Zakaev, who arrived in Warsaw for a congress of Chechens, was soon released and is not to be extradited to Russia. Russian authorities want to try him for his activities as a separatist fighter and then a member of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI) insurgency which became a largely jihadist movement. This began in 2002 after the ChRI’s forces defeat on the traditional battlefield in the second Russo-Chechen war. Specifically Zakhaev is charged with murder and organizing a revolt, among others. Polish authorities stated that they decided not to extradite Zakaev because he had received political asylum in Great Britain.

Unfortunately, the media have not covered the full Zakaev story, ignoring his long record as the ChRI insurgency’s culture minister and in the second ...

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