Under Siege: Inter-Ethnic Relations in Abkhazia

by David Szakonyi, Hedvig Lohm, Tom Trier

Under Siege is the first book in any language to document and analyze the ethno-political dynamics of Abkhazia - a region located in the north eastern corner of the Black Sea - which broke away from the post-Soviet Republic of Georgia following a bloody civil war. For fifteen years the region was a de facto independent, though internationally unrecognized, state, until August of 2008, when the short war over South Ossetia (another breakaway territory)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849040206
• ISBN13: 9781849040204
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"