the chechen republic (commonly referred to as chechnya) is a part of vast territory of russian federation that has been a source of contention since collapse of the soviet :union:. identity elements and tattered cultural bonds have strained ties between two nations of chechnya and russia. various aspects of crisis in chechnya have been addressed by many theoretical approaches of international r...

collapse of the soviet :union: is considered as the most significant development happened in the last decades of the previous century. transformation of power relations and balance of forces at regional level as well as activation of transregional and particularly regional powers to maintain their presence and extend their influence over southern soviet :union: could be mentioned as consequence...

the caucasus has seen numerous crises since the region gained independence following the collapse of the soviet :union:. some of these crises have not been resolved yet as evidenced by recent russia-georgia conflict. this paper seeks to analyze such crises within the framework of significant geopolitical changes unfolded by the collapse of the soviet :union:. the author argues that in the post-...

india and zionist regime relationships have had many ups and downs over the past six decades. indians have been among the supporters of arabs for a long time and had been backing the palestinian issue long before the partition plan of palestine. india had proved no tendency to improve its relationship with israel regardless of jews and the occupier government‘s massive efforts over four decades...

this research seeks to study the impact of pan-turkist ideology on central asia. the collapse of the soviet :union: and independence of the central asian and caucasian states once again revitalized hopes among the pan-turkist theoreticians and strategists who were hopeless about the implementation of their project of establishing a turkic empire in the southern parts of the soviet :union:. cons...