Defining the Nation in Russia's Buffer Zone

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Defining the Nation in Russia's Buffer Zone is written by Maxim Tabachnik and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0355671417 (ISBN 10) and 9780355671414 (ISBN 13).

Civic, rather than ethnic, definition of the nation is typically associated with Western liberal democracies. Yet post-Soviet states Azerbaijan and Moldova have used laws bestowing citizenship on anyone born on their territories. Such policies, known as unconditional jus soli, are found mostly in the Americas. No such law exists in Georgia, the third "buffer zone" country between Russia and the West. Unresolved, or "frozen", separatist conflicts, perpetuated by Russia, prevent the buffer zone states from forging stronger links to the West and place them at the epicenter of a potentially explosive tension between Russia and the West.