Russia and the OSCE- The Influence of Interested Third and Disinterested Fourth Parties on the Conflicts in Estonia and Moldova
Publisher: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe Volume: 19 pages, pdf Description: This article aims to analyse the influence of external actors on the domestic conditions surrounding the conflicts in Estonia and Moldova under the guiding question: Why did the Moldovan conflict turn violent while the Estonian remained peaceful? Thus, the main question here is not on the causes of conflict, but on the causes of the use of violence in the course of the conflict. The assumption is that parties to a conflict have to amass sufficient material and socio-psychological conflict capacity (Konfliktfähigkeit) in order to resort to violence.