POST-SOVIET DISORDER : WAR IN CHECHNİA

Year 1994, Issue: 24, 25 - 37, 01.05.1994

Bülent Gökay

https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000151

Abstract

POST-SOVIET DISORDER : WAR IN CHECHNİA

Abstract

In the post-Cold War world, the focus of international security concern
shifted from the nuclear stand-off betwecn two supcr povvers to the mosaic of
deep ethnic tensions. Since the cnd of the Soviet system, it has become
increasingly evident that the Caucasus is one of the most worrying trouble
spots. There are half a dozen potential border disputcs and more than twcnty
significant ethnic groups in the region. In this short article, I vvould like to
concentrate on a recent dispute in the region: the vvar in Chechnia. I will
outline some of the complcxities of this fascinating qucstion. I vvill try to
identify the basis of age-long problems and draw some comparisons vvith the
past and presen t. 

Keywords

POST-SOVIET, DISORDER, WAR IN CHECHNİA