Understanding Ethnopolitical Conflict ― Karabakh, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia Wars Reconsidered

This book critically evaluates the growing body of theoretical literature on ethnic conflict and civil war, using empirical data from three major South Caucasian conflicts, evaluating the relative strengths and weaknesses of the available methodological approaches.

Emil Aslan Souleimanov?is Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian and East European Studies at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He is author of An Endless War: The Russian-Chechen Conflict in Perspective (2007). He has published widely in journals such as Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Middle East Policy, Osteuropa and Politique etrangere and provided numerous analyses to the Czech Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense, and NATO.