Crimea

Crimea

Examines the political, social, economic, and military aspects of this strategically important area. Includes essays on: Crimea and Russian-Ukranian Relations; The Socio-Economic Situation in Crimea; The Dynamics of Interethnic Relations in Crimea; The National Liberation Movement of the Crimean Tatars; Crimea's Importance to the Ukraine and its Future Security; The Significance of Stability in Crimea for European Security; Balance of Power in the Black Sea: Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine; U.S. National Interests in Crimea. Copublished with the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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The Crimea was the only region of Ukraine in the 1990s where separatism arose and inter-ethnic conflict potentially could have taken place between the Ukrainian central government, ethnic Russians in the Crimea, and Crimean Tatars. Such a conflict would have inevitably drawn in Russia and Turkey. Russia had large numbers of troops in the Crimea within the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine also was a nuclear military power until 1996. This book analyses two inter-related issues. Firstly, it answers the question why Ukraine-Crimea-Russia traditionally have been a triangle of conflict over a region that Ukraine, Tatars and Russia have historically claimed. Secondly, it explains why inter-ethnic violence was averted in Ukraine despite Crimea possessing many of the ingredients that existed for Ukraine to follow in the footsteps of inter-ethnic strife in its former Soviet neighbourhood in Moldova (Trans-Dniestr), Azerbaijan (Nagorno Karabakh), Georgia (Abkhazia, South Ossetia), and Russia (Chechnya).

The Light Cavalry Brigade in the Crimea