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Article: The New Caucasus. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.(Book Review)
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- Middle Eastern Studies
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Frank Cass & Company Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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by Edmund Herzig. Chatham House Papers. London: Cassell & Co. for the Royal Institute for International Affairs, 1999. Pp. x + 165, bibliography, map, no index. 11.99 [pounds sterling] (paper). ISBN 1-85567-553-6.
According to a Russian joke fashionable during the (first) war in Cbechnya, the disintegration of the Soviet Union followed all the previous models of decolonization. In the European part of the USSR the British model was observed; in Central Asia the French one was applied; and in the Caucasus decolonization proceeded along the paths of the Belgian and Portuguese models. Indeed, the Caucasus witnessed in the last decade of the 20th century a long ...