Table of Contents

About the Editors and Contributors, Preface, I. Introduction: Statehood and Nation Building in Post-Soviet Space, 1. Russia, 2. Center-Periphery Relations in the Russian Federation, 3. Russian Minorities in the Newly Independent States: An International Problem in the Domestic Context of Russia Today, 4. The Paradox of Russian National Identity, II. The Western Newly Independent States, 5. The Influence of Ethnicity on Foreign Policy: The Case of Ukraine, 6. Development of Belarusian National Identity and Its Influence on Belarus's Foreign Policy Orientation, 7. The Influence of Ethnicity on the Foreign Policies of the Western Littoral States, 8. Baltic Identities in the 1990s:Renewed Fitness, III. The Southern Newly Independent States, 9. Nation Building and Ethnicity in the Foreign Policies of the New Central Asian States, 10. Ethnic Demography and Interstate Relations in Central Asia, 11. The Ethnic Factor in Central Asian Foreign Policy, 12. Warin Abkhazia: The Regional Significance of the Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict, Appendix: Project Participants, Index

About the Author

S. Frederick Starr; Karen Dawisha, edited by Roman Szporluk