Format:
1 Online-Ressource (47 p)
Series Statement:
APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
Content:
Scholarly treatment of state-building and democratization and ethnic heterogeneity offer little clarity regarding the relationship between state condition, regime type, and ethnic violence. Applying a case study methodology to the seven secessionist conflicts in Eurasia, this paper argues that states undergoing abrupt regime transformation (Georgia, Serbia) interact with independence seeking territories within their de jure boundaries in a substantially different way than those states whose regime status is increasingly pluralistic, but not as dynamic (Bosnia, Moldova). Authoritarian regimes undergoing state-building reforms (Russia, Azerbaijan) may experience instability, but will do so contingently. The paper concludes that dynamic shifts in state capacity as well as pluralistic rhetoric and reform increase the vulnerability of the secessionist territory and decrease base state political will for peaceful conflict resolution, leading to increased likelihood for instability between combatants
Note:
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Language:
English
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