1st Edition

Third-Party Mediation and Peace Processes in the Post-Soviet Space Norms, Interests and Power

By Ana Maria Albulescu Copyright 2026
256 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the success of third-party mediation in conflicts in the post-Soviet space. Third-party mediation is the subject of an extensive literature dealing with the resolution of internal conflicts. This volume examines the conditions that contribute to the success or failure of third-party mediation, and the positions and interests of mediators involved in the resolution of... Read more

Introduction

1 Third-party mediation and peace agreements: understanding the normative basis for criteria for success and failure

2 Interests: third parties involved in mediation in the post-Soviet space

3 Secessionist conflicts and mediation in the post-Soviet space: understanding power relations

4 The UN in Abkhazia: understanding the normative approaches of third-party mediators

5 Russia as third-party mediator and party to the conflict in South Ossetia

6 Stopping the war but failing the peace in Transnistria: interests and interested third parties

7 Why did the Minsk Agreement fail? Power and mediation

8 Power, interests and norms in Nagorno-Karabakh

Conclusion

Biography

Ana Maria Albulescu is a Research Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia. She has a PhD from Kings College London and is author of Incomplete Secession after Unresolved Conflicts: Political Order and Escalation in the Post-Soviet Space (Routledge 2021).