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19. The CSTO treaty contains a general clause saying that an attack on one party will be considered an attack on all parties and speaks of “protection of independence on a collective basis,” but there are no concrete provisions for implementing this clause.

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33. Charles King, “The Benefits of Ethnic War: Understanding Eurasia’s Unrecognized States,” World Politics 53, no. 4 (2001): 524–52.

34. Valentina Basiul, “2003: Proval ‘Plana Kozaka,’” Radio Free Europe, August 20, 2016, https://www.europalibera.org/a/27935462.html.

35. William H. Hill, Russia, the Near Abroad, and the West: Lessons from the Moldova-Transdniestria Conflict (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), chap. 10 and 11.

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44. Lucy Pasha-Robinson, “Russia Quietly Moves Border Hundreds of Yards into Occupied Georgia,” Independent, July 11, 2017, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/russia-georgia-border-south-ossetia-move-hundreds-yards-occupied-nato-putin-west-ukraine-a7835756.html.

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