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- Title: Battle of Two Logics: Appropriateness and Consequentially in Russian Interventions in Georgia (Report)
- Author : Caucasian Review of International Affairs
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 113 KB
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Introduction The last decade of the 20th century and the end of the Cold War, which shaped the relations within the international system of states for almost half a century, marked a significant upsurge in the numbers of ethnic clashes within state territories. In the words of Alexander George, the post-Cold War period "has created a new geopolitical environment and has spawned many new types of internal conflicts. Such internal conflicts within states... vastly outnumbered the more conventional types of war between states". (1) The end of the Cold War together with the positive processes of overall democratization of the world brought forth proliferation of severe and zero-sum civil wars. At this point, the ideological identity of conflicting groups was replaced or layered with religious and/or ethnic ones. More than two-thirds, or a majority of the post-Cold War intrastate conflicts, were fought on ethnic grounds. (2)