Inside Abkhazia: Survey of attitudes in a de Facto state

Post-Soviet Affairs

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-36

  O'Loughlin, John ^a   Kolossov, Vladimir ^b   Gearóid Tuathail, Gerard Toal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; GEOPOLITICS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; POLITICAL RELATIONS;

ABKHAZIA; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 79951650578     PISSN: 1060586X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1060-586X.27.1.1     Document Type: Article

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