Sons of the Soil or Servants of the Empire? Profiling the Guardians of Separatism in Abkhazia and South Ossetia
(2022) In Problems of Post-Communism- Abstract
- Who are the guardians of separatism in Abkhazia and South Ossetia? These de facto states can be seen as self-determination movements or as outgrowths of Russian imperialism. We arbitrate between these competing scripts using a dataset that profiles officials in charge of high politics decision-making inside Georgia’s separatist entities from 1992 through 2020 (N=608). We find that most are sons of the soil, though Abkhazia’s guardians are more multicultural than South Ossetia’s. Russian emissaries seized influential posts inside the self-declared republics after 2003 and, since then, sit in on Security Council meetings, thus rendering them incapable of autonomous decision-making.
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- Berglund, Christofer and Bolkvadze, Ketevan LU
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- 2022
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- Problems of Post-Communism
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- M. E. Sharpe
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- scopus:85135553943
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- 1075-8216
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- 10.1080/10758216.2022.2102039
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- English
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