Ukraine--Crimea--Russia: Triangle of Conflict (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783898217613)

The Crimea was the only region of Ukraine in the 1990s where separatism arose and inter-ethnic conflict potentially could have taken place between the Ukrainian central government, ethnic Russians in the Crimea, and Crimean Tatars. Such a conflict would have inevitably drawn in Russia and Turkey. Russia had large numbers of troops in the Crimea within the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine also was a nuclear military power until 1996. This book analyses two inter-related issues. Firstly, it answers the question why Ukraine-Crimea-Russia traditionally have been a triangle of conflict over a region that Ukraine, Tatars and Russia have historically claimed. Secondly, it explains why inter-ethnic violence was averted in Ukraine despite Crimea possessing many of the ingredients that existed for Ukraine to follow in the footsteps of inter-ethnic strife in its former Soviet neighbourhood in Moldova (Trans-Dniestr), Azerbaijan (Nagorno Karabakh), Georgia (Abkhazia, South Ossetia), and Russia (Chechnya).

Author: Taras Kuzio
ISBN-10: 3898217612
ISBN-13: 9783898217613
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Language: English
Published: 03/13/2007
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.55d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 41