Кимитака Мацузато
Biographic Data
| ID | 3461314 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Кимитака Мацузато |
| GIVEN NAMES | Кимитака |
| FAMILY NAME | Мацузато |
| SIGNATURE | МАЦУЗАТО К |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hokkaido University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6995-7658 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Velvet Revolution, the Russo-Ukrainian War, and the End of Karabakh
The existing studies on the Second (2020) and the final Karabakh Wars (2023) can be divided into three groups, depending upon how they explain Armenia/Karabakh’s unexpectedly easy defeat. The first group emphasizes the Russo-Ukrainian War which forced Russia to concentrate on Ukraine and to refrain from protecting its traditional clients. The second group focuses on Azerbaijan’s (and partly Turkey’s) will and ability to make use of Russia’s retre…
Federalization, Land-for-Peace or a War Once More
This essay conceptualizes five recipes to solve secession conflicts that have taken place in postcommunist territories—federalization, land-for-peace, protectorate policy, reconquest, and the destruction of the parent state by the patron state—and investigates their merits and demerits. This essay provides case studies of the South Ossetian War in 2008 and its aftermath (as an example of the protectorate policy), the Second Karabakh War in 2020 (…
The Donbas War and politics in cities on the front
This paper compares politics in two cities, Mariupol and Kramatorsk, located near the frontline between Ukraine-controlled Donetsk Oblast and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). The DPR controlled these cities in the spring of 2014, but Ukraine recaptured them. Both cities are company towns, in which owners/managers of dominant factories, nicknamed job-givers, have a decisive voice in the city’s decision-making. This paper compares how leaders o…
The Rise and Fall of Ethnoterritorial Federalism
The early Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and independent India inherited vast territories and multi-ethnic populations from the preceding empires. Their maintenance was a political and administrative challenge. The Soviet Union devised an archetype of ethnoterritorial federalism, in which nationality groups were granted their own administrative territories and subnational governments. The PRC and India imitated this system se…
Contextualized violence
Despite the escalating terrorist actions, there is no polarized constellation in the Islamic politics of Dagestan. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) officers regard the corrupt Dagestan authorities to be significantly responsible for the massive conversion of youths to terrorism, and began to contact with moderate Salafis to isolate the “forest brothers” (armed Salafis) in 2010. Exploiting the FSB's soft strategy, secular intellectuals requ…
Faith or Tradition
It is no secret that the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) is closely connected with Armenian nationality and Armenian states (Armenia and Nagorny Karabakh). Previous studies have concentrated on surveying the privileges granted to it by these Armenian states. This study goes further by elucidating complementary relations between the AAC and these states in community-building. These states are suffering from the incompetence of local governments cr…
The Creation of the Priamur Governor‐Generalship in 1884 and the Reconfiguration of Asiatic Russia
The quarter‐century time lag between Russia's acquisition of the Priamur region (by the Beijing Treaty of 1860) and the introduction of the Priamur Governor‐Generalship (1884) has been attributed to bureaucratic inertia and the government's narrowly military interests in this region. This paper argues that administrative territorial reform in the Far East needed this long period because it was inseparable from a total reshaping of Asiatic Russia …
Transnational minorities challenging the interstate system
The collapse of socialist regimes resulted in tremendous regional realignments in the regions surrounding the heartland of Eurasia. Remarkably, not only states, but also transnational actors have played significant roles in this process. This study highlights transnational ethnicities (Mingrelians, Armenians, and Muslims) in Abkhazia, and tries to describe how the involvement of transnational religious organizations (such as the Armenian Apostoli…
Rebuilding a Confessional State
Religions are playing an ever more prominent role in the public sphere in the world today, and it hardly seems productive to examine religion–state relations from the traditional liberal standpoint of idealising the state's non-intervention in religious matters. In this article we examine the relations between Islam and the state in Turkey, Russia/the Soviet Union and China, using the concept of the ‘confessional state’. A confessional state trie…
Cultural Geopolitics and the New Border Regions of Eurasia
During the two decades after the Cold War, interactions between the peripheries of the former Soviet bloc and their neighboring regions activated to the extent that what can be called the New Border Regions emerged. To analyze this phenomenon, the paper proposes a new methodology – cultural geopolitics. While classic geopolitics focused on military, economic, and other material resources exploited by sovereign states (modern empires), cultural ge…
South Ossetia and the Orthodox World
Journal Article South Ossetia and the Orthodox World: Official Churches, the Greek Old Calendarist Movement, and the So-called Alan Diocese Get access Kimitaka Matsuzato Kimitaka Matsuzato [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 52, Issue 2, Spring 2010, Pages 271–297, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csq063 Published: 11 August 2010
Inter-Orthodox Relations and Transborder Nationalities in and around Unrecognised Abkhazia and Transnistria
Religious aspects of the problem of unrecognised states are important. Abkhazia and South Ossetia are located between the jurisdictions of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of Georgia, while the competition between the Russian and Romanian Orthodox Churches over Moldova inevitably affects Transnistria. This paper tries to elucidate the features of politics on the Black Sea rim in general, and in the unrecognised states in partic…
Muslim leaders in Russia's Volga-Urals
Islamic politics in Russia's Volga-Urals has been affected by the self-images of some of the regional communities, such as Tatarstan as ‘the cradle of Russian Islam’, Astrakhan as ‘Russia's southern outpost’, and Perm and Buguruslan as remote peripheries of the Islamic world. Moreover, some regional authorities, such as Astrakhan and Orenburg, have tried to use Muslims to stabilise the ethnoconfessional situation of the regions and also make them…
The Regional Context of Islam in Russia
A noted investigator of Russia's ethnic and geopolitical affairs presents case studies of six regions (in aggregate home to ca. 5.8 million Muslims, or over one-third of Russia's total) within the Volga and North Caucasus districts in an effort to demonstrate the importance of the regional context in which Russia's Muslims reside. Drawing upon field interviews (through March 2006) and information from local media, the author shows how the milieu …
Islamic Politics at the Sub-regional Level in Dagestan
Authoritarian transformations of the Mid-Volga national republics
Relations between Moscow and the regions and republics of Russia have justly attracted attention in the post-Soviet period. However, these relations are not simply bilateral, as political elites in one district are influenced by the behaviour of their neighbours. In this respect, Tatarstan under its leader Mintimer Shaimiev has been an exemplar for other republics in the Mid-Volga region, namely Bashkortostan, Chuvashiya, Udmurtiya, Mordoviya and…
A populist island in an ocean of clan politics
The Last Bastion of Unitarism? Local Institutions, Party Politics, and Ramifications of EU Accession in Lithuania
A Japanese political scientist specializing in the former Soviet republics examines the system of regions taking shape within Lithuania. Driven in part by EU accession requirements, the current system is compared with the Soviet past and with that of Russia, Poland, and the Czech Republic. The paper, based substantially on field work in 2001, argues that emergence of the country's most recognizable and operational regions, second-tier municipalit…
Elites and the Party System of Zakarpattya Oblast
IT IS NO SECRET THAT the flourishing study of regional politics in Russia was inspired by the specific path of state building which Russia underwent during the 1990s.1 A number of objective and subjective conditions led the Russian federal state to the brink of confederation. Russian regional politics seemed much more interesting than its counterparts in Ukraine, Lithuania and the Central Asian countries, which, at least officially, declared them…
From Ethno-Bonapartism to Centralized Caciquismo
The Tatarstan political regime under President Shaimiev can be conceptualized as centralized caciquismo, in which rampant local boss politics is camouflaged by constitutional unitarism and by appointment systems of local chief executives. In this regime the position of local chiefs is staked on electoral performance in their districts. In the preparation of the power-sharing treaty with Moscow during 1993-94, the Tatarstan leadership succeeded in…
All Kuchma's Men; The Reshuffling of Ukrainian Governors and the Presidential Election of 1999
From communist boss politics to post-communist caciquismo - the meso-elite and meso-governments in post-communist countries☆
Research Article| June 01 2001 From communist boss politics to post-communist caciquismo — the meso-elite and meso-governments in post-communist countries☆ Kimitaka Matsuzato Kimitaka Matsuzato * Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Kita-9 Nishi-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060 0809, Japan * Corresponding author. Tel: +81-11-706-3311; fax: +81-11-706-4952. E-mail address:[email protected] (K. Matsuzato). Search for other works by this author …
Local Elites Under Transition
This article focuses on sub-regional politics in Russia from the beginning of perestroika until the 1996 mayoral elections, based on case studies from six locales in two regions (three counties (raiony) in Samara oblast' and three cities in Tambov oblast'). It is difficult to judge why regions continue to be regarded as the only heroes outside Moscow in political studies of post-Soviet Russia. In a previous article I argued that Russia's state bu…
The Fate of Agronomists in Russia
This article is aimed at clarifying a critically important aspect of rural public administration in late Imperial Russia, by analyzing the quantitative dynamics of agronomists in thirty-four old provinces between 1911 and 1916. A significant number of professional intellectuals in rural Russia were employees, so it is natural that the historiography of Russian rural intellectuals has been closely connected with that of the zemstvos. Western histo…
All Kuchma's Men; The Reshuffling of Ukrainian Governors and the Presidential Election of 1999
From Ethno-Bonapartism to Centralized Caciquismo
The Tatarstan political regime under President Shaimiev can be conceptualized as centralized caciquismo, in which rampant local boss politics is camouflaged by constitutional unitarism and by appointment systems of local chief executives. In this regime the position of local chiefs is staked on electoral performance in their districts. In the preparation of the power-sharing treaty with Moscow during 1993-94, the Tatarstan leadership succeeded in…
A populist island in an ocean of clan politics
Islamic Politics at the Sub-regional Level in Dagestan
Inter-Orthodox Relations and Transborder Nationalities in and around Unrecognised Abkhazia and Transnistria
Religious aspects of the problem of unrecognised states are important. Abkhazia and South Ossetia are located between the jurisdictions of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of Georgia, while the competition between the Russian and Romanian Orthodox Churches over Moldova inevitably affects Transnistria. This paper tries to elucidate the features of politics on the Black Sea rim in general, and in the unrecognised states in partic…
From communist boss politics to post-communist caciquismo - the meso-elite and meso-governments in post-communist countries☆
Research Article| June 01 2001 From communist boss politics to post-communist caciquismo — the meso-elite and meso-governments in post-communist countries☆ Kimitaka Matsuzato Kimitaka Matsuzato * Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Kita-9 Nishi-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060 0809, Japan * Corresponding author. Tel: +81-11-706-3311; fax: +81-11-706-4952. E-mail address:[email protected] (K. Matsuzato). Search for other works by this author …
Local Elites Under Transition
This article focuses on sub-regional politics in Russia from the beginning of perestroika until the 1996 mayoral elections, based on case studies from six locales in two regions (three counties (raiony) in Samara oblast' and three cities in Tambov oblast'). It is difficult to judge why regions continue to be regarded as the only heroes outside Moscow in political studies of post-Soviet Russia. In a previous article I argued that Russia's state bu…
Transnational minorities challenging the interstate system
The collapse of socialist regimes resulted in tremendous regional realignments in the regions surrounding the heartland of Eurasia. Remarkably, not only states, but also transnational actors have played significant roles in this process. This study highlights transnational ethnicities (Mingrelians, Armenians, and Muslims) in Abkhazia, and tries to describe how the involvement of transnational religious organizations (such as the Armenian Apostoli…
Cultural Geopolitics and the New Border Regions of Eurasia
During the two decades after the Cold War, interactions between the peripheries of the former Soviet bloc and their neighboring regions activated to the extent that what can be called the New Border Regions emerged. To analyze this phenomenon, the paper proposes a new methodology – cultural geopolitics. While classic geopolitics focused on military, economic, and other material resources exploited by sovereign states (modern empires), cultural ge…
Authoritarian transformations of the Mid-Volga national republics
Relations between Moscow and the regions and republics of Russia have justly attracted attention in the post-Soviet period. However, these relations are not simply bilateral, as political elites in one district are influenced by the behaviour of their neighbours. In this respect, Tatarstan under its leader Mintimer Shaimiev has been an exemplar for other republics in the Mid-Volga region, namely Bashkortostan, Chuvashiya, Udmurtiya, Mordoviya and…
Elites and the Party System of Zakarpattya Oblast
IT IS NO SECRET THAT the flourishing study of regional politics in Russia was inspired by the specific path of state building which Russia underwent during the 1990s.1 A number of objective and subjective conditions led the Russian federal state to the brink of confederation. Russian regional politics seemed much more interesting than its counterparts in Ukraine, Lithuania and the Central Asian countries, which, at least officially, declared them…
Faith or Tradition
It is no secret that the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) is closely connected with Armenian nationality and Armenian states (Armenia and Nagorny Karabakh). Previous studies have concentrated on surveying the privileges granted to it by these Armenian states. This study goes further by elucidating complementary relations between the AAC and these states in community-building. These states are suffering from the incompetence of local governments cr…
The Rise and Fall of Ethnoterritorial Federalism
The early Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and independent India inherited vast territories and multi-ethnic populations from the preceding empires. Their maintenance was a political and administrative challenge. The Soviet Union devised an archetype of ethnoterritorial federalism, in which nationality groups were granted their own administrative territories and subnational governments. The PRC and India imitated this system se…
Contextualized violence
Despite the escalating terrorist actions, there is no polarized constellation in the Islamic politics of Dagestan. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) officers regard the corrupt Dagestan authorities to be significantly responsible for the massive conversion of youths to terrorism, and began to contact with moderate Salafis to isolate the “forest brothers” (armed Salafis) in 2010. Exploiting the FSB's soft strategy, secular intellectuals requ…
Muslim leaders in Russia's Volga-Urals
Islamic politics in Russia's Volga-Urals has been affected by the self-images of some of the regional communities, such as Tatarstan as ‘the cradle of Russian Islam’, Astrakhan as ‘Russia's southern outpost’, and Perm and Buguruslan as remote peripheries of the Islamic world. Moreover, some regional authorities, such as Astrakhan and Orenburg, have tried to use Muslims to stabilise the ethnoconfessional situation of the regions and also make them…
The Fate of Agronomists in Russia
This article is aimed at clarifying a critically important aspect of rural public administration in late Imperial Russia, by analyzing the quantitative dynamics of agronomists in thirty-four old provinces between 1911 and 1916. A significant number of professional intellectuals in rural Russia were employees, so it is natural that the historiography of Russian rural intellectuals has been closely connected with that of the zemstvos. Western histo…
The Creation of the Priamur Governor‐Generalship in 1884 and the Reconfiguration of Asiatic Russia
The quarter‐century time lag between Russia's acquisition of the Priamur region (by the Beijing Treaty of 1860) and the introduction of the Priamur Governor‐Generalship (1884) has been attributed to bureaucratic inertia and the government's narrowly military interests in this region. This paper argues that administrative territorial reform in the Far East needed this long period because it was inseparable from a total reshaping of Asiatic Russia …
Rebuilding a Confessional State
Religions are playing an ever more prominent role in the public sphere in the world today, and it hardly seems productive to examine religion–state relations from the traditional liberal standpoint of idealising the state's non-intervention in religious matters. In this article we examine the relations between Islam and the state in Turkey, Russia/the Soviet Union and China, using the concept of the ‘confessional state’. A confessional state trie…
South Ossetia and the Orthodox World
Journal Article South Ossetia and the Orthodox World: Official Churches, the Greek Old Calendarist Movement, and the So-called Alan Diocese Get access Kimitaka Matsuzato Kimitaka Matsuzato [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 52, Issue 2, Spring 2010, Pages 271–297, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csq063 Published: 11 August 2010
The Regional Context of Islam in Russia
A noted investigator of Russia's ethnic and geopolitical affairs presents case studies of six regions (in aggregate home to ca. 5.8 million Muslims, or over one-third of Russia's total) within the Volga and North Caucasus districts in an effort to demonstrate the importance of the regional context in which Russia's Muslims reside. Drawing upon field interviews (through March 2006) and information from local media, the author shows how the milieu …
The Fate of Agronomists in Russia
This article is aimed at clarifying a critically important aspect of rural public administration in late Imperial Russia, by analyzing the quantitative dynamics of agronomists in thirty-four old provinces between 1911 and 1916. A significant number of professional intellectuals in rural Russia were employees, so it is natural that the historiography of Russian rural intellectuals has been closely connected with that of the zemstvos. Western histo…
Local Elites Under Transition
This article focuses on sub-regional politics in Russia from the beginning of perestroika until the 1996 mayoral elections, based on case studies from six locales in two regions (three counties (raiony) in Samara oblast' and three cities in Tambov oblast'). It is difficult to judge why regions continue to be regarded as the only heroes outside Moscow in political studies of post-Soviet Russia. In a previous article I argued that Russia's state bu…
From Ethno-Bonapartism to Centralized Caciquismo
The Tatarstan political regime under President Shaimiev can be conceptualized as centralized caciquismo, in which rampant local boss politics is camouflaged by constitutional unitarism and by appointment systems of local chief executives. In this regime the position of local chiefs is staked on electoral performance in their districts. In the preparation of the power-sharing treaty with Moscow during 1993-94, the Tatarstan leadership succeeded in…
All Kuchma's Men; The Reshuffling of Ukrainian Governors and the Presidential Election of 1999
From communist boss politics to post-communist caciquismo - the meso-elite and meso-governments in post-communist countries☆
Research Article| June 01 2001 From communist boss politics to post-communist caciquismo — the meso-elite and meso-governments in post-communist countries☆ Kimitaka Matsuzato Kimitaka Matsuzato * Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Kita-9 Nishi-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060 0809, Japan * Corresponding author. Tel: +81-11-706-3311; fax: +81-11-706-4952. E-mail address:[email protected] (K. Matsuzato). Search for other works by this author …
The Last Bastion of Unitarism? Local Institutions, Party Politics, and Ramifications of EU Accession in Lithuania
A Japanese political scientist specializing in the former Soviet republics examines the system of regions taking shape within Lithuania. Driven in part by EU accession requirements, the current system is compared with the Soviet past and with that of Russia, Poland, and the Czech Republic. The paper, based substantially on field work in 2001, argues that emergence of the country's most recognizable and operational regions, second-tier municipalit…
Elites and the Party System of Zakarpattya Oblast
IT IS NO SECRET THAT the flourishing study of regional politics in Russia was inspired by the specific path of state building which Russia underwent during the 1990s.1 A number of objective and subjective conditions led the Russian federal state to the brink of confederation. Russian regional politics seemed much more interesting than its counterparts in Ukraine, Lithuania and the Central Asian countries, which, at least officially, declared them…
Authoritarian transformations of the Mid-Volga national republics
Relations between Moscow and the regions and republics of Russia have justly attracted attention in the post-Soviet period. However, these relations are not simply bilateral, as political elites in one district are influenced by the behaviour of their neighbours. In this respect, Tatarstan under its leader Mintimer Shaimiev has been an exemplar for other republics in the Mid-Volga region, namely Bashkortostan, Chuvashiya, Udmurtiya, Mordoviya and…
A populist island in an ocean of clan politics
Islamic Politics at the Sub-regional Level in Dagestan
The Regional Context of Islam in Russia
A noted investigator of Russia's ethnic and geopolitical affairs presents case studies of six regions (in aggregate home to ca. 5.8 million Muslims, or over one-third of Russia's total) within the Volga and North Caucasus districts in an effort to demonstrate the importance of the regional context in which Russia's Muslims reside. Drawing upon field interviews (through March 2006) and information from local media, the author shows how the milieu …
Muslim leaders in Russia's Volga-Urals
Islamic politics in Russia's Volga-Urals has been affected by the self-images of some of the regional communities, such as Tatarstan as ‘the cradle of Russian Islam’, Astrakhan as ‘Russia's southern outpost’, and Perm and Buguruslan as remote peripheries of the Islamic world. Moreover, some regional authorities, such as Astrakhan and Orenburg, have tried to use Muslims to stabilise the ethnoconfessional situation of the regions and also make them…
Inter-Orthodox Relations and Transborder Nationalities in and around Unrecognised Abkhazia and Transnistria
Religious aspects of the problem of unrecognised states are important. Abkhazia and South Ossetia are located between the jurisdictions of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of Georgia, while the competition between the Russian and Romanian Orthodox Churches over Moldova inevitably affects Transnistria. This paper tries to elucidate the features of politics on the Black Sea rim in general, and in the unrecognised states in partic…
Rebuilding a Confessional State
Religions are playing an ever more prominent role in the public sphere in the world today, and it hardly seems productive to examine religion–state relations from the traditional liberal standpoint of idealising the state's non-intervention in religious matters. In this article we examine the relations between Islam and the state in Turkey, Russia/the Soviet Union and China, using the concept of the ‘confessional state’. A confessional state trie…
Cultural Geopolitics and the New Border Regions of Eurasia
During the two decades after the Cold War, interactions between the peripheries of the former Soviet bloc and their neighboring regions activated to the extent that what can be called the New Border Regions emerged. To analyze this phenomenon, the paper proposes a new methodology – cultural geopolitics. While classic geopolitics focused on military, economic, and other material resources exploited by sovereign states (modern empires), cultural ge…
South Ossetia and the Orthodox World
Journal Article South Ossetia and the Orthodox World: Official Churches, the Greek Old Calendarist Movement, and the So-called Alan Diocese Get access Kimitaka Matsuzato Kimitaka Matsuzato [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 52, Issue 2, Spring 2010, Pages 271–297, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csq063 Published: 11 August 2010
Transnational minorities challenging the interstate system
The collapse of socialist regimes resulted in tremendous regional realignments in the regions surrounding the heartland of Eurasia. Remarkably, not only states, but also transnational actors have played significant roles in this process. This study highlights transnational ethnicities (Mingrelians, Armenians, and Muslims) in Abkhazia, and tries to describe how the involvement of transnational religious organizations (such as the Armenian Apostoli…
The Creation of the Priamur Governor‐Generalship in 1884 and the Reconfiguration of Asiatic Russia
The quarter‐century time lag between Russia's acquisition of the Priamur region (by the Beijing Treaty of 1860) and the introduction of the Priamur Governor‐Generalship (1884) has been attributed to bureaucratic inertia and the government's narrowly military interests in this region. This paper argues that administrative territorial reform in the Far East needed this long period because it was inseparable from a total reshaping of Asiatic Russia …
Faith or Tradition
It is no secret that the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) is closely connected with Armenian nationality and Armenian states (Armenia and Nagorny Karabakh). Previous studies have concentrated on surveying the privileges granted to it by these Armenian states. This study goes further by elucidating complementary relations between the AAC and these states in community-building. These states are suffering from the incompetence of local governments cr…
Contextualized violence
Despite the escalating terrorist actions, there is no polarized constellation in the Islamic politics of Dagestan. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) officers regard the corrupt Dagestan authorities to be significantly responsible for the massive conversion of youths to terrorism, and began to contact with moderate Salafis to isolate the “forest brothers” (armed Salafis) in 2010. Exploiting the FSB's soft strategy, secular intellectuals requ…
The Rise and Fall of Ethnoterritorial Federalism
The early Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and independent India inherited vast territories and multi-ethnic populations from the preceding empires. Their maintenance was a political and administrative challenge. The Soviet Union devised an archetype of ethnoterritorial federalism, in which nationality groups were granted their own administrative territories and subnational governments. The PRC and India imitated this system se…
The Donbas War and politics in cities on the front
This paper compares politics in two cities, Mariupol and Kramatorsk, located near the frontline between Ukraine-controlled Donetsk Oblast and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). The DPR controlled these cities in the spring of 2014, but Ukraine recaptured them. Both cities are company towns, in which owners/managers of dominant factories, nicknamed job-givers, have a decisive voice in the city’s decision-making. This paper compares how leaders o…
Federalization, Land-for-Peace or a War Once More
This essay conceptualizes five recipes to solve secession conflicts that have taken place in postcommunist territories—federalization, land-for-peace, protectorate policy, reconquest, and the destruction of the parent state by the patron state—and investigates their merits and demerits. This essay provides case studies of the South Ossetian War in 2008 and its aftermath (as an example of the protectorate policy), the Second Karabakh War in 2020 (…
The Velvet Revolution, the Russo-Ukrainian War, and the End of Karabakh
The existing studies on the Second (2020) and the final Karabakh Wars (2023) can be divided into three groups, depending upon how they explain Armenia/Karabakh’s unexpectedly easy defeat. The first group emphasizes the Russo-Ukrainian War which forced Russia to concentrate on Ukraine and to refrain from protecting its traditional clients. The second group focuses on Azerbaijan’s (and partly Turkey’s) will and ability to make use of Russia’s retre…
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