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Separatism redux: Crimea, Transnistria, and Eurasia's de facto states (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

2014; Wiley; Volume: 30; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/1467-8322.12108

1467-8322

Michael Bobick,

European Politics and Security

This article compares recent events in Crimea to Transnistria, another de facto, separatist state located in eastern Moldova. The article asks what Crimea and Transnistria, along with Eurasia's other unrecognized states, can tell us about statehood, sovereignty, and a ‘people’ in the 21st century. Though Eurasia's de facto states can be seen as entities that emerged with the backing of the Russian state, their continued existence reflects a wider uncertainty that emerged with the demise of the Soviet Union. More broadly, these de facto states problematize many of the fundamental terms of political existence.