Beschreibung / Abstract

Beschreibung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• BEGINN
• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 De facto state or rebel region?
• 1.2 Unresolved conflict
• 1.3 Research interest
• 1.4 Composition
• 1.5 On terminology
• 2 Protracted conflict and politicalauthority: state of research
• 2.1 Violent conflict and political order
• 2.2 The South Caucasus de facto states
• 2.3 Research question
• 3 The conflicts on Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh
• 3.1 Pre-history, escalation, and post-ceasefire period
• 3.2 Violent conflict – a matter of analytical lenses
• 4 Theorizing political authority
• 4.1 Approaches in conflict research
• 4.2 Discussing Weber and Bourdieu
• 4.3 A heuristic-conceptual framework
• 4.4 On implementation
• 5 Abkhazia – Protecting ethnicmonopoly
• 5.1 Introducing post-1994 Abkhazia
• 5.1.1 Economic challenges
• 5.1.3 Russian-Abkhazian relations – Russia in Abkhazia
• 5.2 Abkhazia†™s field of power
• 6 Nagorno-Karabakh – Sputnik in arms
• 6.1 Introducing post-1994 Nagorno-Karabakh
• 6.2 Nagorno-Karabakh†™s field of power
• 7 Comparative and theoretical discussion
• 7.1 Impact of violent conflict
• 7.2 The de facto state structures and Soviet legacies
• 7.3 Social relations and informal institutions
• 7.4 The †˜external†™ dimension
• 7.5 Political authority in Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh
• 7.6 Political authority and violent conflict
• 8 Conclusion
• 9 References and appendix
• 9.1 Acknowledgements
• 9.2 Abbreviations and acronyms
• 9.3 List of maps, figures, and tables
• 9.4 Bibliography
• 9.5 References (local and regional media) for chapter 5