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Adjara 125 European Union 1, 9, 15–16, 33, Akhalgori 105 36–7, 69, 93, 95, 114–15, 128, Ardzinba, Vladislav 81 130–1, 160, 163, 172 Extraterritoriality of Human Badinter commission 33–4, 38 Rights Treaties (see also Racial Bagapsh, Sergei 37 Discrimination Convention) 5, Black Sea 105, 107 19, 84–7, 97–104 Bosnia (see also former Yugoslavia) 140–1 Forced Migration (see Internally Buergenthal, Thomas 105 Displaced Persons) Bush, George 166–7 Former Yugoslavia (see also Kosovo) 29, 31–4, 37–9, 41, 126 Ceasefire 15, 17, 21, 93, 105, 153, 172 France (see also Sarkozy, Nicolas) 70, 71 Chechnya 18, 117, 124 Churkin, Vitaly 55 Genocide (see also Ethnic Civilian Casualties (and see Ethnic Cleansing) 56–7, 159, 165 Cleansing and International Georgian Young Lawyers Humanitarian Law) 170 Association 125 Committee on Elimination of Racial Germany 70, 117 Discrimination (see also Racial Gori 1, 69, 125, 139 Discrimination Convention) 86, 89–90 Higgins, Rosalyn 105–6 Commonwealth of Independent History of the Conflict 10, 35–7, 58, States 16, 36 81–3, 159 Constructivism 154–9, 162–3, 170 Human Rights Committee 97–103 Council of Europe (see also European Human Rights Watch 162 Court of Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention 55–7, Parliamentary Assembly of the 153, 168–70 Council of Europe) 5, 114–31 Cyber-attacks 3 Independent International Fact- Finding Mission on the Conflict De facto Independence 11, 40–1 in (IIFMCG) 1–2, 15–16, Displacement Solutions 136–49 20, 37, 56, 65, 68, 114–15, 119 , Duma 67, 118, 130, 165 131, 139, 145, 158, 161–3, 168–70 Eredvi 125 Indeterminacy of International Law Ethnic Cleansing (and see (see International Law Rhetoric) Genocide) 14, 56–7, 130, 159, Internally Displaced Persons 161, 165 (IDPs) 5–6, 10, 12, 81, 92, 94–6, European Court of Human Rights 5, 125, 130, 136–49, 170 17–18, 44, 114–25, 153, 162 International Court of Justice (ICJ) 5, European Human Rights Advocacy 18–20, 28–9, 38, 60, 67, Centre 125 80–107, 162

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International Court of Justice (ICJ), Militias 14, 125, 153, 162 Provisional Measures Order 19, Minority Rights (see also 80–107, 145, 153 self-determination and International Criminal Court Racial Discrimination (ICC) 8, 20 Convention) 41–2, 115, 126–9 International Human Rights (see Mironov, Sergei 166 also Racial Discrimination Monism 119 Convention, European Court of Human Rights, extraterritorial- Nagorno Karabakh 21, 144 ity of human rights treaties and National Minorities (see Minority self-determination) 16, 159 Rights) International Humanitarian Law North Atlantic Treaty Organization (IHL) 14, 16, 20, 42, 86–8, 103, (NATO) 13, 115, 160, 163, 118, 129, 159 166, 169 International Law Rhetoric 153–72 North Ossetia 10, 137 International Order (see also Norwegian refugee Council 143–4 International Rule of Law) 3–4, 46–7, 71–3, 105–7, 131, 153–72, Obama, Barack 107 161, 170–2 Oil and Gas 13, 15, 46, 167 International Rule of Law (see also Organization for Security and International Order) 3–4, 9, 21, Cooperation in Europe 11, 16, 46–7, 73, 137, 146–7, 161 31, 36, 93, 115 Internationalisation 4–6, 8–21 Iraq 9, 14, 32 Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 118, 123–4, Joint Control Commission 36 129–31 Jus ad bellum (see Use of Force) Passportisation 5, 13, 37, 45, 55, 66–70, 83, 160, 164–5, 170 Karasin, Grigory 166 Peace Plan (see also Sarkozy, Kälin, Walter 144 Nicolas) 1, 93 Ki-moon, Ban 106 Peacekeepers 11, 64–73, 92–3, 97, Kodori Valley 106 153, 160, 167–9 Kokoity, Eduard 37 Peoples (see self-determination) Kosovo (see also former Pinheiro Principles 142–3, 147 Yugoslavia) 13, 37–9, 140–1, Poland 15 165–6, 168–71 1, 69 144 Proportionality (and see Use of Force) 5, 54, 57, 65, 68–71 Languages and Linguistic Protection of Nationals Abroad (and Diversity 126–9 see Self-Defence) 5, 13, 45, 54, Lavrov, Sergei 56 58–68, 71, 160, 168, 172 Legalisation 4–6, 8–21 Putin, Vladimir 9, 167–8 Liberal Institutionalism 154–6, 158 Lithuania 15 Quebec 31–2, 39, 41

Media 158, 164 Racial Discrimination Convention Medvedev, Dmitry 26, 56, 93, 153, (CERD) 2, 5, 18, 80, 97–104, 162 165, 168 Realism 8–9, 154–9, 162, 170–1 Microstate 11 Recognition 14, 30, 37, 45, 165 Index 179

Refugees (see Internally Displaced Territorial Integrity 11–12, 14, 21, 40, Persons) 86, 162 Regime change 9 Transdniestra 44, 123 Restitution (and see Displacement Tskhvinvali 1, 11–12, 16, 58, Solutions) 138 164, 167 Right of Return (and see Internally Displaced Persons) 140, 146 Ukraine 72 Rose Revolution 11–12, 125, 159 UN Development Programme 138 Rule of Law (see International Rule UN High Commissioner for of Law) Refugees 92, 139, 142 Russian Justifications (and see UN Human Rights Council 144 protection of nationals UN Security Council 4, 8, 16, 37, abroad) 164 39–40, 55–6, 58, 89, 106, 158, 163–4 Saakashvili, Mikheil 9, 11, 125, 138, UN Subcommittee on the Promotion 153, 160–1, 163, 166–8 and Protection of Human Rights Sarkozy, Nicolas 1, 15, 93, 105, 153 (and see Pinheiro Principles) 141, Secession 4, 12, 32 147–8 Self-defence 5, 13, 54–73, 160–1, 163, United Kingdom 70, 71, 98, 121 167–9, 170 United States 9, 13–14, 61–2, 70, Self-Determination 4–5, 12, 26–47, 100, 166 126, 162 United Nations Observer Mission in Shanghai Co-operation Georgia (UNOMIG) 16, 36, 95, 106 Organisation 16 Use of Force (see also Self-Defence) 5, Simma, Bruno 105 12, 43–4, 54–73, 86, 160–1 Sochi Agreement 36, 64, 82, 163, 164 Spheres of Influence 13, 168–9 Vardzelashvili, Konstantine 138

Tbilisi 13, 69, 144, 160 Yeltsin, Boris 117