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Bibliography
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Anchabadze, Y., Coppieters, B., & Nodia, G. (eds) Georgians and Abkhazians. The Search for a Peace Settlement. Bundesinstituts für ostwissenschaftliche und internationale Studien, Kölln, 1998. Russian version: Gruziny i abkhazy. Put’ k primireniyu. Ves Mir, Moscow, 1998 Electronic versions of both published at http://poli.vub.ac.be/
Akaba, N., Coppieters, B., & Darchiashvili, D. (eds) Federal Practice. Exploring Alternatives for Georgia and Abkhazia. VUBPress, Brussels, 1999 Russian version: Praktika federalizma. Poiski alternativ dlya Gruzii i Abkhazii. Ves Mir, Moscow,1999 Electronic versions of both editions published at http://poli.vub.ac.be/
Allison, R. (ed.) Challenges for the Former Soviet South. Brookings/RIIA, Washington DC, 1996
Arbatov, A., Chayes, A., Chayes, A.H., & Olson, L. (eds.) Managing Conflict in the Former Soviet Union: Russian and American Perspectives. CSIA. MIT Press, 1997
Aves, J. Georgia: from Chaos to Stability? Royal Institute for International Affairs, London, 1996
Baev, P., and Berthelsen, O. (eds.) Conflicts in the Caucasus. PRIO Report 3/96, Oslo 1996
Baev, P. Russia’s Policies in the Caucasus. Royal Institute for International Affairs, London, 1997
Chervonnaya, S. Conflict in the Caucasus: Georgia, Abkhazia and the Russian shadow. Gothic Image Publications, Glastonbury (UK), 1994
Chirikba, V. The Georgian–Abkhaz War. Curzon Press, Richmond (UK), 1999
Cohen, J. Peace Postponed. Transitions: Changes in Post-Communist Society, vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 66–73, 1998
Coppieters, B. (ed.) Contested Borders in the Caucasus. VUB Press, Brussels, 1996. Russian version: Spornie Granitsi na Kavkaze. Ves Mir, Moscow, 1996 Electronic version published at http://poli.vub.ac.be/
Coppieters, B., Malashenko, A., & Trenin, D. (eds) Etnicheskie i regionalnye konflikty v Yevrazii, Volume 1: Tsentralnaya Aziya i Kavkaz. Ves Mir, Moscow, 1997. Electronic version published at http://poli.vub.ac.be/
Coppieters, B., Remacle, E., & Zverev, A. (eds) Etnicheskie i regionalnye konflikty v Yevrazii, Volume 3: Mezhdunarodnyi opyt razresheniya etnicheskikh konfliktov. Ves Mir, Moscow, 1997. Electronic version published at http://poli.vub.ac.be/
Coppieters, B., Trenin, D., & Zverev, A. (eds) Commonwealth and Independence in Post-Soviet Eurasia. Frank Cass, London, 1998
Cornell, S.E. Small Nations and Great Powers – a study of ethnopolitical conflict in the Caucasus. Curzon Press, Richmond (UK), 1999
Dale, C. The Dynamics and Challenges of Ethnic Cleansing: The Georgia–Abkhazia Case. Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 77–109, 1997
Dawisha, K. & Parrot, B. (eds) Conflict, Cleavage and Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Cambridge University Press, 1997
Ehrhart,H-G., Kreikemeyer, A., & Zagorski, A. (eds) Crisis Management in the CIS: Whither Russia? Nomos Verl.-Ges.,Baden-Baden, 1995
Essaïed, A., Henze, P., & Wimbush, S.E. Georgia on the path to democracy and the Abkhaz issue: a report of an International Alert mission, 22 November to 4 December 1992. London, 1993
Feinberg, J. The Armed Forces in Georgia. Center for Defense Information, Washington, March 1999
Gachechiladze, R. The New Georgia: Space, Society, Politics. UCL Press, London, 1995
Garb, P. Ethnicity, Alliance Building, and the Limited Spread of Ethnic Conflict in the Caucasus. Lake, D. A., & Rothchild, D. (eds) The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation. Princeton University Press, 1998
Garb, P. Mediation in the Caucasus. Wolfe, A. W., & Yang, H. (eds) Contributions of Anthropology to Conflict Resolution, vol. 29, University of Georgia Press, Athens GA, 1996
Garb, P. (ed) Rol’ narodnoi diplomatii v mirotvorcheskom protsesse; materialy gruzino-abkhazskoi conferentsii March 1999, Sochi, Russia website http://hypatia.ss.uci.edu/gpacs/peacemaking/ March 1999, Sochi, Russia) University of California, Irvine, 1999
Goldenberg, S., Schofield, R. & Wright, J.F.R. (eds) Transcaucasian Boundaries. UCL Press, London, 1996
Hansen, G. Humanitarian Action in the Caucasus: A Guide for Practitioners. Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Providence, R.I., Occasional Paper no. 32, 1998
Herzig, E. The New Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. RIIA/Pinter, London 1999
Hewitt, B.G. Abkhazia: a problem of identity and ownership. Central Asian Survey, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 267–323, 1993
Hewitt, B.G. Demographic manipulation in the Caucasus. The Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 48–74, 1995
Hewitt, G. (ed.) The Abkhazians. Curzon Press, 1999
Høiris, O., & Yürükel, S. (eds) Contrasts and solutions in the Caucasus. Aarhus University Press 1998
Human Rights Watch/Helsinki, Georgia/Abkhazia: Violations of the Laws of War and Russia’s Role in the Conflict. Human Rights Watch Arms Project, vol. 7, no. 7, March 1995
Hunter, S.T. The Transcaucasus in Transition: Nation-building and Conflict. Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC, 1994
Iskander, F. Sandro iz Chegema. Moscow 1991. English version: Sandro of Chegem. Trans. Susan Brownsberger, Faber & Faber, 1993
Jones, S. Georgia: a failed democratic transition. Bremmer, I. & Taras, R. (eds) Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1993
Jones, S. Populism in Georgia: the Gamsaxurdia phenomenon. Schwartz, D.V. & Panassian, R. (eds) nationalism and history: the politics of nation-building in post-Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Centre of Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, 1994
Jonson, L. Keeping the Peace in the CIS: the Evolution of Russian Policy, Royal Institute for International Affairs, London 1999
Lakoba, S. Abkhazia is Abkhazia. Central Asian Survey, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 97–105, 1995
Lynch, D. The Conflict in Abkhazia: Dilemmas in Russian “Peacekeeping” Policy. Royal Institute of International Affairs, London 1998
MacFarlane, S.N., Minear, L. & Shenfield S. Armed Conflict in Georgia: A Case Study in Humanitarian Action and Peacekeeping. Watson Institute, Brown University, Providence, Occasional Paper no. 21, 1996
MacFarlane, S.N. On the Front Lines in the Near Abroad: the CIS and the OSCE in Georgia’s Civil Wars. Weiss, T. (ed.) Beyond UN Subcontracting Task-Sharing with Regional Security organizations and Service-Providing NGOs. Macmillan, London, 1998
Matveeva, A. The North Caucasus: Russia’s Fragile Borderland. Royal Institute for International Affairs, London 1999
Nan, S.A. & Mirimanova, N. Traumatized Societies: Ethnic Conflict in Georgia. International Research and Exchanges Board, Washington DC, 1997
Nasmyth, P. Georgia: In the Mountains of Poetry. Curzon Press Richmond (UK) 1998
Nodia, G. (ed.)Political System in Georgia. Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, Tbilisi, 1998
Nodia, G. Trying to Build (Democratic) State Institutions in Independent Georgia. Mangott, G., (eds.), Brennpunkt Südkaukasus: Aufbruch trotz Krieg, Vertreibung und Willkürherschaft, Braumüller, Vienna, 1999
Slider, D. Crisis and Response in Soviet Nationalities Policy: The Case of Abkhazia. Central Asian Survey, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 51–68, 1985
Slider, D. The Politics of Georgia’s Independence. Problems of Communism, Nov–Dec 1991
Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project. The Caucasus and the Caspian: Seminar Series Vol I–III. Harvard University, 1996–1998
Suny, R.G. The making of the Georgian nation. Indiana University Press, in association with Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, 1998
Tütüncü, M. (ed.) Caucasus: War and Peace. SOTA, Harleem, Netherlands, 1998
United Nations Development Programme. United Nations Needs Assessment Mission to Abkhazia, Georgia. Working Group III March 1998
UNHCR Prospects for the Return of Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees to Abkhazia. UNHCR, May 1997
UNPO Report of a UNPO Mission to Abkhazia, Georgia and the Northern Caucasus. Central Asian Survey, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 325–345, 1993
UNPO Report of a UNPO Co-ordinated Human Rights Mission to Abkhazia and Georgia, November/December 1993. Central Asian Survey, vol. 14, no. 1, pp.127–54, 1 995
Walker, E.W. No Peace, No War in the Caucasus: Secessionist Conflict in Chechnya, Abkhazia, and Nagorno- Karabakh. Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project, Cambridge MA, 1998
WarReport, issues 34–58 Institute for War & Peace Reporting, London, 1995–98 Between 1995 and 1998 WarReport provided some of the best coverage of developments relating to war, peace and development in the Caucasus, publishing regional and international authors.
General sources and weblinks
Abkhazia.org http://www.abkhazia.org
Caucasian Regional Studies http://poli.vub.ac.be/publi
Georgian Economic Trends http://www.geplac.org/
Georgian Parliament http://www.parliament.ge
Institute for War and Peace Reporting http://www.iwpr.net
Jamestown Foundation, Monitor and Prism http://www.jamestown.org
RFE/RL Newsline and Caucasus Report http://www.rferl.org/
The Transcaucasus: a Chronology http://www.soros.org/caucasus/
email newsletters and news bulletins
Abkhazian Newsletter. Prepared by The International Documentation and Information Centre for Abkhazia, The Netherlands chirikba@pcmail.leidenuniv.nl
Annotated Daily Headlines of the Georgian Press. Compiled by the Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, Tbilisi cipdd@access.sanet.ge
Army and Society. The Centre for Civil-Military and Security Studies of the Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development Tbilisi, Georgia cipdd@access.sanet.ge
NGO Sector News. Issued by Horizonti Foundation Information Program presscenter@horizonti.org
RFE/RL Caucasus Report. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague, Czech Republic caucasus-report-request@list.rferl.org
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