Guseyn GUSEYNOV

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Guseyn Guseynov, Ph.D. (Political Science), Second Secretary of the Azerbaijan Republic’s Mission to the European Union (Baku, Azerbaijan).

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SETTLEMENT OF ETHNIC-SEPARATIST CONFLICTS: EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE AND ITS POTENTIAL APPLICATION IN THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH SETTLEMENT

ABSTRACT

International terrorism, proliferation of WMD, mounting nationalism, and ethnic separatism have already become part and parcel of the contemporary political processes unfolding with frightening speed.

Ethnic separatism in the Southern Caucasus is a local manifestation of the global struggle over the world markets. Any analysis of the region’s future stumbles across the problem of settling the region’s ethnic-separatist discords, the main one of which is the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. This means that an analysis of corresponding international experience may suggest fresh approaches to the old conflict.

The conflict cannot be resolved at the cost of the territorial integrity of one of the sides: the solution lies in preserving and encouraging the national minority’s ethnic specifics within the unified state.

Introduction

The disintegration of several polyethnic states and the high destructive potential of nations which have lived side by side for a long time in one state suggests that ethnic separatism is not a……………….

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