Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Section 1 De facto statehood: understanding the concept
  • 1.1. Terminology / Emil Aslan Soueeimanov
  • 1.2. De facto statehood: overview of the research / Tomas Hoch
  • 1.3. De facto states and other unrecognized entities in Eurasia / Vincenc Kopecek
  • Section 2 Russian territorial expansion and de facto states in the first half of 20th century
  • 2.1. Introduction to Russian and Soviet territorial expansion / Slavomir Horak
  • 2.2. Bukharan People's Soviet Republic: from protectorate to SSR / Slavomir Horak
  • 2.3. Tuva and Mongolia: between annexation and independence / Jaroslav Kurfurst
  • Section 3 emergence of de facto states
  • 3.1. Factors of de facto states' formation in the post-Soviet area / Tomas Hoch
  • 3.2. Formation of de facto states in Abkhazia and South Ossetia / Emil Aslan Souleimanov
  • 3.3. Nagorno-Karabakh and Javakheti: two different trajectories of Armenian separatist movements / Vincenc Kopecek
  • 3.4. Unfinished story of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics: towards a de facto state? / Tomas Smid
  • Section 4 How de facto states are sustained and instrumentalized
  • 4.1. Factors of de facto states' sustainability / Vincenc Kopecek
  • 4.2. Unrecognized states as a means of Russia's coercive diplomacy? An empirical analysis / Eduard Abrahamyan
  • 4.3. patron-client relationship between Russia and Transnistria / Marcin Kosienkowski
  • 4.4. Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and the Republic of Armenia: who instrumentalizes whom? / Vincenc Kopecek
  • 4.5. Inside a de facto state: forming and sustaining the Abkhazian and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic polities / Vincenc Kopecek
  • Section 5 Why de facto states fail
  • 5.1. Possible ends of de facto states / Vincenc Kopecek
  • 5.2. Explaining de facto states' failure / Huseyn Aliyev
  • 5.3. Why de facto states fail. Lessons from the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria / Emil Aslan Souleimanov
  • 5.4. emergence and failure of the Gagauz Republic (1989--1995) / Slavomir Horak.