Affiliation: | 1. Associate professor in the Department of Russian and East European Studies, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He is the author of Understanding Ethnopolitical Conflict: The Wars in Karabakh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia Reconsidered (2013) and An Endless War: The Russian‐Chechen Conflict in Perspective (2007).;2. Graduate in government, diplomacy and strategy from the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel.* |