Contested Sovereignty: The Tragedy of Chechnya

Gail W. Lapidus is Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies and Director of the Project on Ethnic Conflict in the Former Soviet Union at the Center for International Security and Arms Control, both at Stanford University. Recent publications include The New Russia: Troubled Transformation (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press). This article is adapted from a study prepared for the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. A different version will be published by the Commission in Bruce Jentleson, ed., Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized: Preventive Diplomacy in the Post-Cold War World (Lanham, Md.: Rowan and Littlefield, forthcoming).