CIAO DATE: 12/2012
May 2012
Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"
Twenty-one years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international community has not yet managed to solve the four separatist conflicts that broke out in the wake of the USSR’s demise. With the help of their patron states (Russia and, in the case of Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia), the selfproclaimed Republics of Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh have become de facto states with separate political institutions and economic structures.
Resource link: No settlement without a proactive policy: The European Union and the secessionist conflicts in the post-Soviet space [PDF] - 466K