CIAO DATE: 08/01

Border and Ethnic Disputes in Russia's Western Borderlands: Crises Averted and Postponed

Abstract

The current crisis in and around Yugoslavia demonstrates the importance of ethnicity as a source of tension and armed conflict in post-Cold War Europe. Unsettled ethnic and border issues have been important characteristics of the European security environment after the collapse of the Soviet Union and have been the cause of much tension on the European continent.

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