Area studies : Caucasus
Etablissement : ESPOL European School of Political and Social Sciences
Langue : Anglais
Formation(s) dans laquelle/lesquelles le cours apparait :
- Licence de Relations Internationales [ECTS : 3,00]
Période : S3
To understand some of the underlying dynamics of the conflicts that have taken place in the South and North Caucasus since the late 1980s.
To learn to analyse current events in historical perspective.
To become familiar with ongoing tensions in a “European neighbourhood”.
- General presentation of the course and of the Caucasus
- The history of the Caucasus: from Tsarist colonization to the break-up of the USSR
- The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
- Abkhazia and South Ossetia: pre-2008
- The Russo-Georgian war and the post-2008 period
- The two Chechen conflicts
- The North Caucasus: violence, instability, and Islam
