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About the prize The Nove Prize was established by decision of the annual general meeting of the Association in March 1995 in recognition of the outstanding contribution to its field of study made by the late Alec Nove. It was first awarded in the spring of 1997 for works published during calendar year 1995. The prize, of one hundred and fifty pounds, is offered annually for scholarly work of high quality in Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet studies. The prize will be awarded at this year's BASEES conference, 28-30 March at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.
About the book
The book is available from any bookseller, or directly from Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-1-932650-01-3.
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Gwendolyn Sasse is a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, University Reader in Comparative Politics, University of Oxford. |
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Regional diversity such as Ukraine's often embodies potential for friction and conflict, in particular when it involves territorialized ethnicity and divergent historical experiences. Political elites interested in stability and conflict prevention must find ways either to accommodate or control this diversity. In the early to mid-1990s, the Western media, policymakers, and academics alike warned that Crimea was a potential center of unrest in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's dissolution. However, large-scale conflict in Crimea did not materialize, and Kyiv has managed to integrate the peninsula into the new Ukrainian polity. This book explores the factors that led to the largely peaceful transition and places the situation in the larger context of conflict-prevention studies, explaining this critical case in which conflict did not erupt despite a structural predisposition to ethnic, regional, and even international enmity. 
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