101. De-Facto-Grenzen‘ als ein Spiegel der Souveränität. Der Fall der postsowjetischen nicht-anerkannten Staaten
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Kolosov, Vladimir and Zotova, Maria
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national territory ,cross-border interactions ,Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik ,Souveränität ,Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy ,geopolitics ,Russia ,Transnistria ,Region ,Political science ,cross-border economic discontinuities ,UdSSR-Nachfolgestaat ,USSR successor state ,Armenia ,mobility ,Georgien ,Staatsformen und Regierungssysteme ,border regime ,Political System, Constitution, Government ,political stability ,Staatenbildung ,Luhansk People’s Republic ,Russland ,Ukraine ,international recognition ,state formation ,Georgia ,Azerbaijan ,Politikwissenschaft ,Abkhazia ,Systems of governments & states ,international border ,Post-Soviet de facto states ,pandemic ,De-Facto borders ,Post-Soviet Non-Recognized States ,South Ossetia ,Nagorno-Karabakh ,Donetsk People's Republic ,Luhansk People's Republic ,Geopolitik ,Caucasus region ,Abhängigkeit ,Donetsk People’s Republic ,internationale Anerkennung ,Grenzgebiet ,dependence ,sovereignty ,politische Stabilität ,Kaukasusregion ,Armenien ,border region ,ddc:320 ,ddc:321 ,Aserbaidschan ,Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen ,Staatsgebiet - Abstract
The crisis of statehood in many countries has resulted in the emergence of non-recognized states that have become an intrinsic feature of the world geopolitical order. Using the concept of bordering, we study a specific type of border that was shaped in the course of state-building processes and conflicts with parent states. Some “de-facto borders” are not stable; in addition, non-recognized states often do not control all their declared territory. Looking in detail at the situation in six non-recognized republics in the post-Soviet space, we show the asymmetry of their borders with the parent state and with the external patron. Comparing the basic socio-economic indicators by regions, we conclude that non-recognized states still lag far behind both their parent and their patron state. Citizens of non-recognized republics regularly visit border areas of the patron and parent states and spend a considerable part of their income there. This can contribute to the normalization of relations between adversaries, but at the same time can perpetuate the separation between them. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly increased the barrier functions of the borders with parent states., Historical Social Research Vol. 46, No. 3 (2021): Special Issue: Borders as Places of Control. Fixing, Shifting, and Reinventing State Borders. Starting Point and Frequency: Year: 1979, Issues per volume: 4, Volumes per year: 1
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- 2021
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