Citizenship, Territoriality, and Post-Soviet Nationhood The Politics of Birthright Citizenship in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova /

• Main Author: Tabachnik, Maxim (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Russia-Politics and government.; Comparative politics.; Europe-Politics and government.; Political theory.; Democracy.; Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.; Comparative Politics.; European Politics.; Political Theory.
• Physical Description: XV, 289 p. 8 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030128821
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12882-1

This book seeks to understand the politics of nationalism in the buffer zone between Russia and the West: Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova, as well as Russia itself. It problematizes the official ways of defining the nation, and thus citizenship, in the light of "frozen" ethno-territorial conflicts and broader geopolitical discrepancies between Russia and the West. The author analyzes the politics of birthright citizenship policy in these countries and rejects the assumed connection between territorial nation-building and liberal democracy. The project will interest academics and graduate students in the fields of comparative and post-Soviet politics, nationalism, and citizenship, and international relations policy professionals. Maxim Tabachnik is Lecturer at University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.