Citizenship, Territoriality, and Post-Soviet Nationhood, 1st ed. 2019
The Politics of Birthright Citizenship in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova

This book seeks to understand the politics of nationalism in the buffer zone between Russia and the West: Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova, as well as Russia itself. It problematizes the official ways of defining the nation, and thus citizenship, in the light of ?frozen? ethno-territorial conflicts and broader geopolitical discrepancies between Russia and the West. The author analyzes the politics of birthright citizenship policy in these countries and rejects the assumed connection between territorial nation-building and liberal democracy. The project will interest academics and graduate students in the fields of comparative and post-Soviet politics, nationalism, and citizenship, and international relations policy professionals.    

Maxim Tabachnik is Lecturer at University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.

Reviews the effect of the separatist ethno-territorial conflicts and the geopolitical instability in the region on the politics of identity

Seeks to understand the politics of citizenship and national identity in the buffer zone between Russia and the West

Extensively theorizes the concept of birthright citizenship exploring its history, as well as its practices in the post-Soviet space