REGULATION OF ETHNOPOLITICAL CONFLICTS IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH CAUCASUS: ESSENCE AND SPECIFICITY
The article is devoted to a comparative study of the conceptual and applied aspects of the settlement of ethnopolitical conflicts in the North and South Caucasus. The study presents the features, features and specific properties of ethnopolitical contradictions in individual regions of the Caucasus. Particular attention is paid to the identification of similarities and significant differences in conflict phenomena, as well as the ways in which they are being resolved. The urgency of the research is determined by the parametrical political task, which is the need to reveal the significance and influence of ethnopolitical conflicts taking place in the North Caucasus and Transcaucasia, the geopolitical structure of the whole study space, including their impact on the regional security and stability of the neighboring states of the region. The Caucasus plays a special role in geostrategic relations for the modern world-political system. Within its borders there is a multisyllabic ethno-confessional differentiation, under the conditions of which historical, cultural, political, ideological and socio-economic processes that are diverse in content and character develop, which are the basic factors of the escalation of ethnopolitical tension in the Caucasian public environment, both in the North Caucasus and And in the post-Soviet states of Transcaucasia. Any, without exception, ethnopolitical conflict in the vast multi-faceted Caucasus has unique uniqueness and distinctive forms of formation. It is important that ethnopolitical conflicts in the North and South Caucasus have a different level of manifestation (the status of opposing entities, the scale, the forms of intermediary role, etc.), which determines the mechanisms of regulation and the prospects for resolving the crisis