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Friday, October 10, 2008

Michael Totten describes a "frozen conflict":

Immediately following Russia's invasion of Georgia and its de-facto annexation of the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the phrase "frozen conflicts" was bandied about so often among the world's foreign policy commentariat that it briefly became a cliché. Yet there is another frozen conflict in the South Caucasus that few have even heard of, fewer know much about, and even fewer have thought to include in any analysis. This war, the forgotten war of Nagorno (or "Mountainous") Karabakh, has so far racked up a much higher body count - tens of thousands - than any in Georgia lately. Many more people - more than a million - were displaced. An uneasy ceasefire holds most of the time, but the conflict itself is not even close to being resolved. It's a Mideast- and Balkan-style ethnic bomb that could easily blow up the region again and tempt Russia with another imperialist adventure in its "near abroad."

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