Russia and the OSCE - The Influence of Interested Third and Disinterested Fourth Parties on the Conflicts in Estonia and Moldova english This article aims to analyse the influence of external actors on the domestic conditions surrounding theconflicts in Estonia and Moldova under the guiding question: Why did the Moldovan conflict turn violentwhile the Estonian remained peaceful?Thus, the main question here is not on the causes of conflict, but on the causes of the use of violence in thecourse of the conflict. The assumption is that parties to a conflict have to amass sufficient material andsocio-psychological conflict capacity (Konfliktfähigkeit) in order to resort to violence. Claus Neukirch
Centre for OSCE Research, Germany
Program Presentation 
18.08.2007
