THE THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF THE STUDYING OF THE PROBLEM OF THE SETTLING THE “FROZEN CONFLICTS” IN THE POST-SOVIET AREA

The article is devoted to the analysis of such threats of regional and global security as "frozen conflicts", and the approaches of their settlement in the post-Soviet space. The aggressive policy of the Russian Federation in relation with Ukraine, actualize this topic, because there is a threat of appearance a similar conflict on the territory of Ukraine. The paper analyzes the theoretical approaches to the research of "frozen" and ethnopolitical conflicts by domestic (G.Perepelitsa, O.Kartunov, A.Kisse, V.Kotygorenko) and foreign (R. Bruebooker, E. Hobsbawm, R.Dahrendorf, J. Rothschild, E. Smith) scientists. Considerable attention is paid to the study of the understanding of such conflicts by russian scientists (M. Lebedeva, A. Zdravomyslov, A. Tsigankov). The paper determined the main reasons and preconditions of interethnic contradictions on the post-Soviet area. Also determined the main approaches to the category of "frozen conflict" and their peculiarities in the region. The process of resolving such conflicts and their mechanisms, proposed by different scientific schools, is thoroughly studied. In the paper is determined the role of mediation in resolving conflicts of this kind.