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- Berglund, Christofer, 1985-
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Borders and Belonging : Nation-Building in Georgia's Armenian and Azerbaijani Ethno-Regions, 2004–2012
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Since the fall of the Soviet Union, scholars researching ethnic politics have approached the South Caucasus as a testing ground for theories of separatism and conflict. But the 2003 Rose Revolution brought a new generation of politicians to power in Georgia. President Mikheil Saakashvili distanced himself from the ethnic nationalism of the past, which had poisoned relations between Georgians and their Armenian and Azerbaijani compatriots. The incoming authorities instead sought to foster an inclusive nationalism, wherein belonging hinged on speaking the state language and all Georgian-speakers, regardless of origin, were to be equals.This thesis investigates this nation-building project and its influence on the integration of Georgia's Armenian and Azerbaijani borderlands. I first examine the mode through which these peripheries were incorporated into post-Soviet Georgia. Since Armenians controlled "their own" domain to a greater extent than the Azerbaijanis, I infer that the former were absorbed along integralist and the latter along colonial lines. Moving to the time-period after the Rose Revolution, I next explore if Georgian officials and Georgian adolescents were tolerant towards Georgian-speaking minorities. With the help of elite interviews and a socio-linguistic experiment (n = 792), I reveal that officials and adolescents were open to integrated Armenians and Azerbaijanis alike. I then proceed to inspect the centre's nationalising agencies and their efforts to incentivise minorities to interact with Georgians, and to use the state language during these contacts. Last but not least, I turn to the reactions this nation-building project elicited in the borderlands. On the basis of interviews with local elites and a socio-linguistic experiment involving Armenian and Azerbaijani adolescents (n = 434; n = 483), I discovered sharp differences: Armenians reacted with defiance and Azerbaijanis with compliance.These findings augment our knowledge of ethno-linguistic stereotypes in the Caucasus. They also demonstrate that inclusive nation-building projects can inspire minorities to integrate – despite adverse circumstances – but hint at one condition conducive to this end. Armenians perceived the state language as a battering ram against "their own" domain, while Azerbaijanis saw it as a tool to escape their isolation. This within-country comparison suggests that similar nation-building projects can trigger different reactions in integralist and colonial borderlands.
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- Cornell, Svante E.
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A Chechen State?
- 1997
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Ingår i: Central Asian Survey. - : Carfax, UK. - 0263-4937. ; 16:2, s. 185-200
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Cornell, Svante E.
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Autonomy: A Catalyst of conflict in the Caucasus?
- 2000
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Ingår i: Paper for the 5th annual convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities. ; , s. 51-
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Cornell, Svante E., 1975-
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Autonomy and Conflict : Ethnoterritoriality and Separatism in the South Caucasus - Cases in Georgia
- 2002
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Providing minority populations with autonomy is gaining appreciation as a method of solving,managing, and even pre-empting ethnic conflict. However, in spite of the enthusiasm for autonomy solutions among academics and practitioners alike, there is reason to argue that the provision of autonomy for a minority may under certain circumstances increase rather than decrease the likelihood of conflict. In certain political conditions, autonomy strengthens the separate identity of a minority; it thereby increases its incentives to collective action against the state; and most of all its capacity to seek separation from the central state, through the state-like institutions that autonomy entails. The objective of this dissertation is to investigate whether territorial autonomy was a contributing factor to the violent ethnic conflicts that have erupted in the South Caucasus since the late 1980s. It presents a theoretical argument to explain which qualities of autonomy solutions increase the likelihood of conflict; and then seeks to outline possible rival explanations derived from the theoretical literature. The dissertation then examines the explanatory value of autonomy as compared to nine other possible causal factors in a study of nine minorities in the South Caucasus. Finding that autonomy has the highest explanatory value of any of the factors under study, it then moves on to study in depth the five minorities existing on the territory of the republic of Georgia. Three of them, Abkhazia, Ajaria, and South Ossetia, were autonomous, whereas two (the Armenians and Azeris in Southern Georgia) had no autonomous status. The dissertation shows how the institution of autonomy, by promoting an ethnic elite in control of state-like institutions, and by enhancing factors such as leadership, economic viability, and external support, played a crucial together with these factors in the escalation to conflict in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, whereas the absence of autonomy mitigated conflict in Javaheti’s Armenian and Kvemo Kartli’s Azeri populations.
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- Cornell, Svante E., et al.
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Azerbaijan
- 2003
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Ingår i: Nations in Transit 2003. - : Freedom House, New York.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Cornell, Svante E, et al.
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Azerbaijan
- 2004
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Ingår i: Nations in Transit 2003. - : Freedom House, New York. ; , s. 18-
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Cornell, Svante E.
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Birläshmish Shtatlar: Mövge Aydínlígína Dogru
- 1999
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Ingår i: Qanun: Ictimai-Siyasi-Elmi Jurnal. - : Qanun, Baku, Azerbaijan. ; 59:2, s. 15-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Title: The United States: Toward Engagement in the Caucasus
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