MIRON REZUN, born in Israel, is a Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and has published widely on the Soviet Union and the Middle East. His articles have appeared in Etudes Internationales, the International Journal, Queen's Quarterly, and Problems of Communism. He has edited a book called Iran at the Crossroads: Global Relations in a Turbulent Decade (1990). He has also published Post-Khomeini Iran and the New Gulf War (1991), Intrigue and War in Southwest Asia (Praeger, 1991), and Saddam Hussein's Gulf Wars (Praeger, 1992).

• Preface Introduction The Center Continuity, within Soviet Nationality Policy: Prospects for change in the post-Soviet Era by Kurt Nesby Hansen The Army and the National Question by David Jones The European Periphery Latvia: Chronicle of an Independence Movement by Juri Dreifelds Ukrainian Nationalism and the Future by Bohdan Harasymiw The Caucasian Periphery Georgia: The Long Battle for Independence by Stephen Jones Armenian Nationalism in a Socialist Century by Gordon Brown The Muslim Periphery Azerbaijan: From Trauma to Transition by Fuat Borovali The Muslim Borderlands: Islam and Nationalism in Transition by Miron Rezun The International Dimension Xinjiang: Ethnic Minorities under Chinese Rule by Lawrence Shyu American and French Responses to the Lithuanian Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Allan Laine Kagedan Constitutional Crises in Two Countries: The Soviet Perceptions of Federal-Provincial Relations in Canada by Larry Black Suggested Reading Index

MIRON REZUN, born in Israel, is a Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and has published widely on the Soviet Union and the Middle East. His articles have appeared in Etudes Internationales, the International Journal, Queen's Quarterly, and Problems of Communism. He has edited a book called Iran at the Crossroads: Global Relations in a Turbulent Decade (1990). He has also published Post-Khomeini Iran and the New Gulf War (1991), Intrigue and War in Southwest Asia (Praeger, 1991), and Saddam Hussein's Gulf Wars (Praeger, 1992).

• Preface Introduction The Center Continuity, within Soviet Nationality Policy: Prospects for change in the post-Soviet Era by Kurt Nesby Hansen The Army and the National Question by David Jones The European Periphery Latvia: Chronicle of an Independence Movement by Juri Dreifelds Ukrainian Nationalism and the Future by Bohdan Harasymiw The Caucasian Periphery Georgia: The Long Battle for Independence by Stephen Jones Armenian Nationalism in a Socialist Century by Gordon Brown The Muslim Periphery Azerbaijan: From Trauma to Transition by Fuat Borovali The Muslim Borderlands: Islam and Nationalism in Transition by Miron Rezun The International Dimension Xinjiang: Ethnic Minorities under Chinese Rule by Lawrence Shyu American and French Responses to the Lithuanian Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Allan Laine Kagedan Constitutional Crises in Two Countries: The Soviet Perceptions of Federal-Provincial Relations in Canada by Larry Black Suggested Reading Index

MIRON REZUN, born in Israel, is a Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and has published widely on the Soviet Union and the Middle East. His articles have appeared in Etudes Internationales, the International Journal, Queen's Quarterly, and Problems of Communism. He has edited a book called Iran at the Crossroads: Global Relations in a Turbulent Decade (1990). He has also published Post-Khomeini Iran and the New Gulf War (1991), Intrigue and War in Southwest Asia (Praeger, 1991), and Saddam Hussein's Gulf Wars (Praeger, 1992).

• Preface Introduction The Center Continuity, within Soviet Nationality Policy: Prospects for change in the post-Soviet Era by Kurt Nesby Hansen The Army and the National Question by David Jones The European Periphery Latvia: Chronicle of an Independence Movement by Juri Dreifelds Ukrainian Nationalism and the Future by Bohdan Harasymiw The Caucasian Periphery Georgia: The Long Battle for Independence by Stephen Jones Armenian Nationalism in a Socialist Century by Gordon Brown The Muslim Periphery Azerbaijan: From Trauma to Transition by Fuat Borovali The Muslim Borderlands: Islam and Nationalism in Transition by Miron Rezun The International Dimension Xinjiang: Ethnic Minorities under Chinese Rule by Lawrence Shyu American and French Responses to the Lithuanian Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Allan Laine Kagedan Constitutional Crises in Two Countries: The Soviet Perceptions of Federal-Provincial Relations in Canada by Larry Black Suggested Reading Index