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| | Map of the Caucasus | 10 |
| | Acknowledgements | 13 |
| | Conclusions | 59, 138, 195, 249, 315, 331, 365, 387, 407 |
| | Notes | 411 |
| | Bibliography | 448 |
| | Index | 471 |
| 1. | The Caucasus : a region in conflict | 17 |
| | Historical and Geographical settings and ethnolinguistic divisions | 19 |
| | The Caucasus : a security complex? | 22 |
| 2. | The legacy og history : underlying factors in the Caucasian conflicts | 26 |
| | The Russian conquest of the Caucasus : the North Caucasus | 26 |
| | The Russian conquest of the Caucasus : the South Caucasus | 31 |
| | The Soviet legacy : Leninist nationality policy and the structure of the Soviet Union | 39 |
| | The devaluation of autonomy : a cause of conflict and an impediment to resolution | 41 |
| | The fall of the Soviet Union and conflicting identities | 47 |
| | A structural instability? | 52 |
| | The nature and roots of the Caucasian conflicts | 54 |
| 3. | The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh | 61 |
| | Early history and conflicting claims | 62 |
| | The Soviet era and the suppression of the conflict : 1921-87 | 73 |
| | Perestroika and the re-emergence of the conflict : 1987-91 | 78 |
| | Full-scale war : 1992-94 | 94 |
| | The search for solutions | 109 |
| 4. | Georgia : from unitary dreams to an asymmetric federation? | 142 |
| | The historical background | 144 |
| | The Georgian national revival | 151 |
| | The re-emergence of Abkhazian separatism | 155 |
| | Perestroika and the road to independence | 158 |
| | The escalation of tension with the minorities | 163 |
| | Abkhazia : the beginnings, 1989-91 | 163 |
| | The escalation to war in South Ossetia | 165 |
| | The fall of Gamsakhurdia and the loss of South Osseti | 168 |
| | The war in Abkhazia : 1992-93 | 170 |
| | Post-war developments in Abkhazia | 174 |
| | Potential disturbances in Georgia | 174 |
| | The question of Ajaria | 175 |
| | The Javakheti dilemma | 178 |
| | The Meskhetians or Ahiska | 182 |
| | The 'Zviadist' in Mingrelia | 184 |
| | Peacekkeping | 185 |
| | The search for solutions | 188 |
| | Abkhazia : from bad to worse? | 188 |
| | South Ossetia : a solution on the horizon? | 193 |
| 5. | Russia's war with Chechnya | 197 |
| | Prelude : deportation and return | 197 |
| | The revolution | 205 |
| | The tragedy | 221 |
| | International reaction and attitudes | 234 |
| | Legal considerations : the decolonization aspect | 238 |
| | Yje post-war era | 240 |
| 6. | Conflicts in the North Caucasus | 251 |
| | The Ingush-Ossetian conflict | 251 |
| | The Northwestern Caucasus | 262 |
| | The Lezgin quest for unification | 268 |
| | Dagestan : complexity par excellence | 272 |
| 7. | Turkey : priority to Azerbaijan | 285 |
| | Turkish polyce : 1923-91 | 286 |
| | Early euphoria | 289 |
| | Turkey : Azerbaijan's only ally? | 291 |
| | Turkey and Armenia : doomed to animosity? | 302 |
| | Georgia : from meglect to commitment | 306 |
| | Chechnya and the North Caucasus : an ambiguous stance | 310 |
| | Implicationbs for Turkey in the CIS and regional power alignmants | 313 |
| 8. | Iran : a reluctant neighbour | 317 |
| | The Azerbaijan question up to the Soviet breakup | 319 |
| | The perceived Azerbaijani threat | 322 |
| | The Russo-Iranian axis over the Caspian Sea | 326 |
| | Iran and the Karabakh war | 327 |
| | The Tehran-Moscow-Yerevan triangle | 330 |
| 9. | Russia : a retreting hegemonic power | 333 |
| | The Russian foreign police debate and foreing policy goals in the 'Near Abroad' | 334 |
| | Patterns of intervention | 343 |
| | Implications for Eurasian strategy | 362 |
| 10. | The United States : towards engagement | 366 |
| | 1991-94 : incoherence and 'Russia-First' policy | 367 |
| | 1994-96 : the formulation of a policy | 372 |
| | 1997 and after : strategic engagement of the Caspian region | 376 |
| 11. | The Caucasus in Eurasian geopolitics : from backwater to centre-stage? | 391 |
| | The security complex revisited : Caucasian geopolitics | 392 |
| | Caucasian strategic alignments in Eurasian geopolitics | 398 |
| | Implications for conflict resolution | 402 |