Date: 14.10.2020

Presenter:

Brown, M.E. (2001): “The Causes of Internal Conflict: An Overview”, in Brown, M.E, Coté, O.R.,
Lynn-Jones, S.M. and Miller, S.E.: “Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict”, The MIT Press, Cambridge,
pp.: 3-25.


Date: 21.10.2020

Presenter:

Mueller, J. (2001): “The Banality of “Ethnic War”, in Brown, M.E, Coté, O.R., Lynn-Jones, S.M. and
Miller, S.E.: “Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict”, The MIT Press, Cambridge, pp.: 126-162.


Date: 21.10.2020

Presenter:

Posen, B. R. (1993): “The security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict”, in Brown, M.E.: “Ethnic Conflict
and International Security”, pp.: 103-124.


Date: 4.11.2020

Presenter:

Cornell, S.E. (2002): “Autonomy as a Source of Conflict: Caucasian Conflicts in Theoretical
Perspective”, World Politics, Vol.54. No.2. pp.: 245-276.


Date: 11.11.2020

Presenter:

Broers, L. (2015): “From “frozen conflict” to enduring rivalry: reassessing the Nagorny Karabakh
conflict”, Nationalities Papers, Vol. 43(4), pp: 556-576.


Date: 11.11.2020

Presenter:

German, T. (2012): “The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia: Security issue in
the Caucasus”, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 32, pp. 216-229.


Date: 18.11.2020

Presenter:

Gasparyan, Arsen (2019): “Understanding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: domestic politics and
twenty-five years of fruitless negations 1994-2018,” Caucasus Survey, Vol. 7, No. 3., pp.: 235-250.


Date: 18.11.2020

Presenter:

German, Tracey (2012): “The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia: Security
Issue in the Caucasus”, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp.: 216-229.


Date: 25.11.2020

Presenter:

Petersen, Alexandros (2008): “The 1992-1993 Georgia-Abkhazia War: A forgotten Conflict”, Caucasian
Review of International Affairs, Vol. 2., No.4. pp.: 187-199.


Date: 25.11.2020

Presenter:

Shevchuk, Zinaida (2014): The Evolving Nature of the Armed Conflict in South Ossetia: From “Frozen”
to “Hot” and Back, Defence and Strategy, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 53-68.


Date: 2.12.2020

Presenter:

Karagiannis, Emmanuel (2013): “The 2008 Russian-Georgian war via the lens of offensive Realism”,
European Security, Vol. 22, No. 1., pp.: 74-93.


Date: 2.12.2020

Presenter:

Nodia, Ghia (2012): “The August 2008 war: main consequences for Georgia and its conflicts”,
Nationalities Papers, Vol. 40. No.5., pp.: 721-738.


Date: 9.12.2020

Presenter:

Lyall, Jason (2010): “Are Coethnics More Effective Couterinsurgents? Evidence from the Second
Chechen War”, The American Political Science Review, Vol. 104., No 1., pp.: 1-20.


Date: 9.12.2020

Presenter:

Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina (2008): “Ideology and Conflict: Chechen Political Nationalism prior to,
and during, ten years of war”, chapter 7 in Gammer, Moshe: “Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State
in the Caucasus”, London and New York, Routledge, pp.: 102-138.


Date: 16.12.2020

Presenter:

Rezvani, Babak (2010): “The Ossetian-Ingush Confrontation: Explaining a Horizontal Conflict”, Iran
and the Caucasus, Vol. 14., pp.: 419-430.


Date: 16.12.2020

Presenter:

Bruce, Robert and Kisriev, Enver (2009): “Conflict and Catharsis: Why Dagestanis Fought to Remain
in Russia”, chapter 6, in: “Dagestan. Russian Hegemony and Islamic Resistance in the Northern
Caucasus”, M.E. Sharpe, New York, London, pp.: 121-155.


Date: 6.1.2021

Presenter:

Hoch, T; Souleimanov E. and Baranec, T. (2014): Russia’s role in the official peace process in
South Ossetia, Bulletin of Geography, Socio- economic Series Vol. 23, no. 23, pp: 53-71.


Date: 6.1.2021

Presenter:

Gerrits, A. WM, and Max, B. (2016): Russian patronage over Abkhazia and South Ossetia: implications
for conflict resolution, East European Politics Vol. 32, no. 3, pp: 297-313.


Date: 13.1.2021

Presenter:

Whitman, R. (2011): Normative Power Europe. Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives, chapter 4 by
Stewart. E.J.: Mind the Normative Gap? The EU in the South Caucasus, Palrgrave, pp: 65 – 82.


Date: 13.1.2021

Presenter:

Tsygankov, Andrei (2013): “The Russia-NATO mistrust: Ethnophobia and the double expansion to
contain the “Russian Bear”.” Communist and Post-Communist Studies Vol. 46, Issue 1, pp. 179-188.