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Armed conflict on the territory of the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 2001 claimed over 200, 000 lives, gave rise to atrocities unseen in Europe since the Second World War, and left behind a terrible legacy of physical ruin and psychological devastation. Unfolding against the background of the end of cold war bipolarity, the new Balkan wars sounded a discordant counterpoint to efforts to construct a more harmonious European order, were a m...

The two papers grouped together here were delivered at the Strategic Studies Institute's annual strategy conference for 2007. As the theme of the conference was global security challenges to the United States and proceeded on a region by region basis, these papers were delivered during the session devoted to security challenges issuing from what is now called Eurasia, i.e., to a large degree the former Soviet Union. The authors illustrate the ...

In the post-Soviet period, the Caucasus region has been a source of chronic instability and conflict: Unresolved "frozen conflicts" in Abkhazia, Southern Ossetia, and Nagorno Karabakh, continuing armed resistance in secessionist Chechnya and associated Islamic radicalism, the "Rose Revolution" in Georgia and Tbilisi's subsequent efforts to realign with the West, competition for access to the oil and natural gas reserves of the Caspian basin-th...