S. Neil MacFarlane is Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, Professorial Fellow at St Anne’s College and Director of Oxford’s Centre for International Studies. In 1997, with colleagues at Brown University, he completed a monograph on humanitarian action in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that followed a companion study on Georgia’s civil conflicts published in 1996.

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Accord Issue 7: Georgia-Abkhazia

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