Strategies and tactics for resolving territorial conflicts in Georgia through the prism of international law

Abstract

The thorough resolution of conflicts is impossible not only without removing the objective bases of the conflicting parties’ confrontation, but also without identifying the subjective divergences between the participants in the conflict and the international community participating in its resolution. In this context, the territorial conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia should be seen as political-territorial and international, considering the dynamics of the changing geopolitical interests of the great powers at the regional and continental level. The central figure involved in these territorial conflicts is the Russian Federation, which uses the separatist regimes in Sukhumi and Tskhinvali as a tool to achieve its long-term geopolitical goals in Southwestern Europe – part of the former Soviet Union. Even in the case of a more constructive approach by Moscow to the problems in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, it is impossible to find a super-special status of the separatist regions, the adoption of which would automatically resolve the conflicts.