Abstract

This study applies neorealist insights to an analysis of the Tajik Civil War. Pointing to the collapse of central authority as the permissive cause of the conflict, it argues that the concept of the offence‐defence balance can successfully be employed to explain why in the spring of 1992 fighting broke out between government supporters and the opposition. On this background, it then offers a discussion of how civil wars can be ended and it demonstrates how in Tajikistan external involvement in particular was central to the settlement in 1997 of the conflict.

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