Wilson Center Experts
Nikolai V. Petrov
Regional Exchange Grant
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
; Russia
Affiliation:
Head of Laboratory, Russian Academy of Sciences
Wilson Center Project(s):
Ethno-Territorial Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Space: Origins, Development and Their Regulation
Term:
Oct 01, 1993
Jun 01, 1994
Project Summary
A study of ethnic-territorial claims and conflicts, analyzing their roots (ethnic settlement and boundary shifts) in order to work out strategies to regulate them in connection with the territorial state development. Reviews the various conflicts, their origins and evolution in a comparative-geographical analysis, noting concrete measures and mechanisms of how to regulate existing conflicts and avoid new ones.