Autonomy and Conflict: Ethnoterritoriality and Separatism in the South Caucasus - Cases in Georgia

Abashidze Abkhaz Abkhazia Ademon Nykhas Ajaria Ajars Akhalkalaki Akhaltsikhe Ardzinba areas argue ASSR autonomous regions autonomous republics Azerbaijan Azeris in Georgia background factors Batumi Bolshevik border catalyzing factors Caucasian causal central government chapter civic cohesion cultural differences demographic economic elite emergence Empire especially ethnic conflict ethnic groups ethnic kin ethnopolitical conflict existed external support fact forces Gamsakhurdia Georgian government Georgian national Georgian nationalists Gurr hence human rights increased independence institutions internal issue Javakheti Javakheti Armenians Javakhk Kakheti Kvemo Kartli language leaders Lenin Lezgins likelihood of conflict Marneuli Menshevik Moreover Moscow Mountainous Karabakh Muslim national conception North Ossetian Ottoman past conflict political proposition radical leadership regime relations risk of conflict role rough terrain Russian military Samtskhe-Javakheti secession secessionist Shevardnadze significant situation socialist South Caucasus South Ossetia Soviet Union Stalin status Sukhumi Supreme Soviet Talysh Tbilisi tensions territorial autonomy titular nationality Tskhinvali Turkey union republics USSR whereas