No main field.
The course can normally be included as a part of a general degree at undergradate level.
The web-based course literature is accessible at Malmö University library to enrolled students.
Nation and State building
Pål Kolstø, Nation-building in Russia and the post-Soviet States.
2000 Boulder, Colorado: Westview press 2000, http://folk.uio.no/palk/ch02.htm#_ftn24
Arend Lijphart, ”Constitutional Design for Divided Societies”. Journal of Democracy 15, (April) 2004, p. 96-101. (e-journal)
Roeder, Philip G. (1999), ‘Peoples and States after 1989: The Political Costs of Incomplete National Revolutions’, Slavic Review 58(4), pp. 854–881.
Jack Snyder, “Nationalism and the Crisis of the Post-Soviet State,” Survival 35, 1, 1993: 12.
Yuriy Slezkine, “The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism,” Slavic Review 53, 2, 1994, pp. 414-452;
Theisen, Søren, Mountaineers, Racketeers and the Ideals of Modernity-Statebuilding and Elite Competition in Caucasia www.caucasus.dk/publication10.htm
Shils, Edward (1995), ‘Nation, Nationality, Nationalism and Civil Society’, Nations and Nationalism 1(1),
pp. 93–118.
Taras Kuzio “Transition in Post-Communist States:
Triple or Quadruple?” POLITICS: 2001 VOL 21(3), 168–177 (e-journal, Mah bibl.)
The course uses additional online resourses and articles of approx, 150 pages.
Reference literature
Walker Connor, Ethnonationalism. The Quest for Understanding (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994): 22-66. First published in 1972.
Goldenberg, Suzanne, Pride of Small Nations. The Caucasus and Post-Soviet Disorder. London, 1994.
Kalevi J. Holsti, The State,War, and the State of War. Cambridge University Press (82-122)
Dov Lynch, Engaging Eurasia’s Separatist States. Unresolved Conflicts and De Facto States, Washington, 2004.
Anthony D. Smith, National Identity. London, 1991 ( pp. 71-142)
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ethnicity & Nationalism. Antropological Perspectives, London, 1993, pp. 1-12.
Minahan, J. One Europe, Many Nations : A Historical Dictionary of European National Groups, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000
http://site.ebrary.com.support.mah.se/lib/malmoe/docDetail.action?docID=10017990
Ronald Grigor Suny, The revenge of the past. Nationalism, Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993).
Ronald Grigory Suny, The Making of the Georgian Nation, Bloomington, Ind., 1988.
Conflicts and conflict resolution in the Caucasus
Michael E. Brown, “The Causes of Internal Conflict”, in Michael E. Brown (ed) Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict. Revised Edition, London 2001.
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Cornell, Svante, E., Small Nations and Great Powers. A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus, Curzon World, 2001, pp. 41-47. http://support.mah.se/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/malmoe/Doc?id=10094532 (Chapter on autonomy; chapters on Azerbaijan/Armenian/ Nagorno-Karabakh; Georgia)
David, Steven R., “Internal War Causes and Cures”, World Politics, 49.4 1997.
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David and Patric James, “Escalation of ethnic conflict”, International Politics, 35, March 1998, pp. 65-82.
Faurby, Ib, "International Law, Human Rights and the Wars in Chechnya", Baltic Defence Review, No. 7, Volume 2002,
http://www.caucasus.dk/publication13.htm
Faurby Ib in co-operation with Märta-Lisa Magnusson,
"The Battle(s) of Grozny", Baltic Defence Review, No. 2, 1999, pp. 75-87. http://www.caucasus.dk/publication1.htm
Kaufmann, Chaim, “Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars”, International Security, Vol. 20. No 4 (Spring) 1996.
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Lake, David A. and Donald Rotchild, “Containing Fear. The Origins and Management of Ethnic Conflict”. International Security, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1996.
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Magnusson, Märta-Lisa. Prospects for peace in Chechnya? In: Rita Grünenfelder und Heinz Krummenacher (Eds.) Searching for Peace in Chechnya – Swiss Initiatives and Experiences. swisspeace Annual Conference 2005. Conference Paper, 1/2006. www.swisspeace.ch/typo3/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/Conference_Paper/CP_2006Jahreskonferenz.pdf
Pozen, Barry, R., “The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict”, in: Michael E. Brown, Ethnic Conflict and International Security, Princetown University Press, 1993, pp. 103-124,
http://web.mit.edu/polisci/research/posen/posen_security_dilemma.pdf
Saideman, Stephan M, “Explaining the International Relations of Secessionist Conflicts: Vulnerabilities versus Ethnic Ties” International Organization 51, 4 Autumn 1997, pp. 721-53. (e-journal)
Walter, Barbara, “Explaining the Intractability of Territorial Conflict”, International Studies Review, Vol. 5(4), 2003, pp. 137-153.
Van Evera, Stephen, “Hypotheses on Nationalism and War”, International Security, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Spring), 1994, pp. (jstor)
Reference literature
Eide, Asbjørn, “In Search of Constructive Alternatives to Secession”, in: Tomuschat, Christian (ed.), Modern Law of Self-Determination, Martinus Nijhofff Publishers, London 1993.
Harff , Barbara & Ted Robert Gurr, Ethnic Conflict in World Politics, Westview Press, Oxford, 2004.
Kaufman, Stuart J., Modern Hatreds. The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War. Cornell Universtity Press, London 2001.
Krag, Helen and Lars Funch, The North Caucasus. Minorities at a Crossroads.
London 1994.
Miall, Hugh et.al. eds., Contemporary Conflict Resolution, The prevention, management and transformation of deadly conflicts. Cambridge, 1999.
Minahan, J. One Europe, Many Nations : A Historical Dictionary of European National Groups, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000
http://site.ebrary.com.support.mah.se/lib/malmoe/docDetail.action?docID=10017990
Robertson, Lawrence, “The constructed nature of ethnopolitics”, International Politics, 34, September 1997.
Wallensteen, Peter, Understanding Conflict Resolution. War, Peace and the Global System. Second Edition. London, 2007
The web-based course literature is accessible at Malmö University library to enrolled students.
Russia’s War in Georgia, The Buildup, Course of Events, and Aftermath. Institute for Security and Development Policy. Central Asia-Caucasus & Silk Road Studies Program, 2008.
The course uses additional online resourses and articles of approx, 150 pages.
Peoples and languages of the Caucasus
Burbank, Jane, Von Hagen, Mark & Remnev, Anatolyi 2008, Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930 Indiana University Press
Chapter 8: From Region to Nation: The Don Cossacks 1870–1920
http://site.ebrary.com.support.mah.se/lib/malmoe/docDetail.action?docID=10225107&p00=caucasus
Catford, J.C. 1977. Mountain of Tongues: The Languages of the Caucasus
Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 6, (1977), pp. 283-314 (Jstor)
Grenoble, Lenore A. 2003 Language Policy in the Soviet Union
Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 35-64, 111-136
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Kobaidze, M. & K. Vamling. 2005. The Balance of Languages in Post-Soviet Georgia. In: A. Rabo & B. Utas (eds.) The Role of the State in West Asia, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Transactions, Stockholm, pp. 179-191.
Vladimir Lazarev and Ludmila Pravikova: The North Caucasus Bilingualism and Language Identity, Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University, , 20 p.
http://www.lingref.com/isb/4/103ISB4.PDF
Panossian, Razmik, 2006, Armenians, Columbia University Press, pp. 262-318.
http://site.ebrary.com.support.mah.se/lib/malmoe/docDetail.action?docID=10183605&p00=caucasus
Solchanyk, Roman, 1982, Russian Language and Soviet Politics, Soviet Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 23-42 (access at Jstor)
Jonathan Wheatley: Georgia and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, June 2009, 53 pp., appendix
http://ecmi.de/download/working_paper_42_en.pdf
The module uses additional online resourses and articles of approx, 200 pages.
4. The Caucasus region: causes and consequences of migration
Greene, T. (1995): Dimensions of migration in Russia and the Caucasus, Refugee Policy Group (RPG) 47 pp. [online report]
Lewis Robert A. & Richard H. Rowland (1977): East is West and West is East... Population Redistribution in the USSR and Its Impact on Society. International Migration Review, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring, 1977), pp. 3-29. Publisher(s): The Center for Migration Studies of New York, Inc. (online jstor)
Polian, P. M. (2004): Against their will: the history and geography of forced migrations in the USSR / by Pavel Polian. Budapest ; New York: Central European University Press, 2004. [e-book]
Trier, T. & M. Turashvili (2007) Resettlement of Ecologically Displaced Persons
Solution of a Problem or Creation of a New? Eco-Migration in Georgia 1981 – 2006. European Center for Minority Issues. ECMI Monograph #6, 72 p. (online)
Wood, W. (1994): Forced migration: Local conflicts and international dilemmas. Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Dec94, Vol. 84 Issue 4, p607, 28p
The course uses additional online resourses and articles of approx, 150 pages.
Reference resources
Asylum – a common space of protection and solidarity. EU Commission Home Affairs website.
http://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/policies/asylum/asylum_intro_en.htm
The 1951 Geneva refugee convention. (The UN Refugee Agency)
http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/3b66c2aa10.pdf
Protection of conflict-induced IDPs. Assessment for Action, 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/48849ac12.pdf
Minahan, J. One Europe, Many Nations : A Historical Dictionary of European National Groups, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000
http://site.ebrary.com.support.mah.se/lib/malmoe/docDetail.action?docID=10017990