Introduction: Post-Soviet Conflict Potentials
Cindy Wittke
1. Conflict Over Peace? The United States’ and Russia’s Diverging Conceptual Approaches to Peace and Conflict Settlement
Evgeniya Bakalova and Konstanze Jüngling
2. The Politics of International Law in the Post-Soviet Space: Do Georgia, Ukraine, and Russia ‘Speak’ International Law in International Politics Differently?
Cindy Wittke
3. Evolving Dynamics of Societal Security and the Potential for Conflict in Eastern Ukraine
David J. Galbreath and Tetyana Malyarenko
4. A Critical Political Cosmopolitanism for Conflict De-escalation: The Crimean Example
Marc Dietrich
5. Accepting Alien Rule? State-Building Nationalism in Georgia’s Azeri Borderland
Christofer Berglund
Afterword
Cindy Wittke
Biography
Cindy Wittke is Leader of the Political Science Research Group at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg (Germany) and PI of 'Between Conflict and Cooperation: The Politics of International Law in the Post-Soviet Space', a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (PolVR, 01UC1901).
"Wittke and her contributors shed new light on old problems by challenging worn-out perspectives on the post-Soviet region often rooted in cold-war terminology. Instead, they show that a much better understanding of conflict dynamics and potentials can be gained through in-depth empirical analysis. This collection offers a welcome inter-disciplinary corrective that complements, and in many ways takes us beyond, the "New Cold War" paradigm."
- Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
