The Dynamics of Ethnic network and Ethnic Politics in the Post-Cold War International Relations

自20世纪70年代以来，自治和权力分享一直被认为是预防冲突的工具。然而，20世纪90年代初的高加索民族战争证明，自治反而是民族战争的一个重要因素。亚美尼亚人通过亚美尼亚侨民和亚美尼亚共和国的族裔网络提供的支持使纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫的亚美尼亚人能够参加纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫战争。在格鲁吉亚共和国阿布哈兹这个自治共和国中，原本是少数民族的阿布哈兹人民能够调动他们的民族认同，并最终能够首先通过议会中的权力分享成功地完成种族清洗，然后最终独立。在此，民族自治的存在又有助于民族认同在民族政治中的动员。

It has been considered that autonomy and power sharing is a tool of conflict prevention since 1970's. However, the Caucasian ethnic wars in the early 1990s proved that autonomy instead was a vital factor of the ethnic wars. The support by Armenians through ethnic network of the Armenian diaspora and Armenia Republic enabled the Armenian in Nagorno Karabakh to fight the Nagorno-Karabakh war. The Abkhazia peoples who were originally ethnic minority in this autonomous republic of Abkhazia in Georgian Republic, were able to mobilize their ethnic identity and eventually could successfully conclude ethnic cleansing through power sharing in the parliament first, and then finally became independent. Here again the existence of ethnic autonomy contributed to mobilize the ethnic identity in the ethnic politics.