Ethnic Cleansing in the Caucasus

In: Nationalism and ethnic politics, Band 1, Heft 4, S. 90-107

Abstract

Two recent cases of ethnic cleansing, in North & South Ossetia in the Caucasus, are examined to ascertain their impact on the communities involved & the degree to which such actions have produced solutions to long-standing problems instead of mere management of them at a tolerable level of violence. With similar clashes likely to occur elsewhere in the former USSR, it is hoped that some lessons be learned. Adapted from the source document.