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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="other" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Political Science</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Political Science</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Политология</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-1438</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-1446</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">8909</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>ARTICLES</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>СТАТЬИ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject></subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The Conflicts on Southern Caucasus: the Reasons of the «Five-Days War»</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Конфликтогенность Южного Кавказа: причины «Пятидневной войны»</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Pophadze</surname><given-names>A P</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Попхадзе</surname><given-names>Александр Пориаевич</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">Кафедра национальных и федеративных отношений; Российская академия государственной службы при Президенте РФ; Russian Academy of Civil Service under the President of Russian Federation</bio><bio xml:lang="ru">Кафедра национальных и федеративных отношений; Российская академия государственной службы при Президенте РФ</bio><email>medvedev_rudn@mail.ru &amp;lt;mailto:medvedev_rudn@mail.ru&amp;gt;</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Russian Academy of Civil Service under the President of Russian Federation</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российская академия государственной службы при Президенте РФ</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2010-04-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>04</month><year>2010</year></pub-date><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">NO4 (2010)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">№4 (2010)</issue-title><fpage>68</fpage><lpage>72</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2016-09-09"><day>09</day><month>09</month><year>2016</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2010, Попхадзе А.П.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2010</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Попхадзе А.П.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/view/8909">https://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/view/8909</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en">The article analyzes the essence of the modern international conflicts on an example of the situation on Southern Caucasus. The reasons behind self escalation of the conflicts between Georgia and Abkhazia and Southern Ossetia are analyzed. The author's estimation of actions of the parties in a phase previous to military actions is also offered in the article.</abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru">В статье рассматривается сущность современных межгосударственных конфликтов на примере ситуации на Южном Кавказе. Анализируются причины, повлекшие за собой эскалацию грузино-абхазского и грузино-юго-осетинского конфликтов и предлагается оценка действий сторон в фазе, предшествующей военным действиям.</trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>political conflict</kwd><kwd>Southern Caucasus</kwd><kwd>«five days war»</kwd><kwd>Russia</kwd><kwd>Georgia</kwd><kwd>Southern Ossetia</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>политический конфликт</kwd><kwd>Южный Кавказ</kwd><kwd>«пятидневная война»</kwd><kwd>Россия</kwd><kwd>Грузия</kwd><kwd>Южная Осетия</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Lake D.A., Rothchild D. The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict. - Princeton, NJ, USA, 1998.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Боден Д. Конфликты в Грузии: как быть дальше? // Россия в глобальной политике. - 2007. - № 6.</mixed-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>
