http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/norman_stone en http://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2008/11/caucasus-russia-king-history http://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2008/11/caucasus-russia-king-history Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:18:10 GMT Norman Stone Between Russia and the Middle East, the Caucasus is one of the world's most diverse regions - and as recent fighting in South Ossetia and Abkhazia showed, still boiling with ethnic tensions. Norman Stone reviews a history which makes sense of this complexity

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199912060068 http://www.newstatesman.com/199912060068 Mon, 06 Dec 1999 12:00:00 GMT Norman Stone The Balkans 1904-1999: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers Misha Glenny Granta, 726pp, £25 ISBN 1862070504 Plundered Loyalties: Axis Occupation and Civil Strife in Greek West Macedonia, 1941-1949 John S Koliopoulos C Hurst and Company, 304pp, £39.50

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199907050010 http://www.newstatesman.com/199907050010 Mon, 05 Jul 1999 12:00:00 GMT Norman Stone Western Europeans see Kurds and their leader, Ocalan, as martyrs of Turkish oppression. Norman Stone offers a different opinion

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