Published to mark the three decades of a war whose grievances have never been satisfactorily resolved, The Armed Conflict of the Dniester: Three Decades Later brings together an international team of experts to discuss the causes and repercussions of the military operations carried out in 1992. Against the backdrop of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the region of Transnistria-a strip of land between the Dniester river and the Ukrainian border-proclaimed independence from Moldova in 1990. In a development with notable contemporary resonances, the separatist movement was backed by Moscow, leading to intervention by the Russian Fourteenth Army alongside paramilitary formations recruited from former Soviet states. The subsequent conflict with Moldovan forces was brought to an end by the 1992 ceasefire, but few were satifised with the arrangement, and the political status of Transnistria has been unresolved ever since.

Eugen Straüiu: Introduction - Mihai Melintei: The 1992 Dniester Armed Conflict: An Analytical Approach to the Politico-Military Events from the Perspective of the Involved Parties - Keith Harrington: Support for Moldova's Territorial Integrity in the Transnistrian Region from 1989 to 1992 - Anatoliy Dirun: Armed Stage in the Moldovan-Pridnestrovian Conflict: Causes and Political Consequences - Dareg Zabarah-Chulak: Fighting for What and Whom? The Non-Resident Volunteers During the Armed Conflict in Pridnestrovie - Nicoleta Annemarie Munteanu: War Memorials Published in Chisinau: Between Documentary Value and Patriotic Manifesto - Ana Jovic-Lazic: The Russian Federation's Approach to the Unresolved Dniester Conflict and Its Implications for the Security and Foreign Policy of the Republic of Moldova - Maximilian Ohle: Moldova and Transnistria's Bargaining Strategies Towards Russia: Deciphering Bargaining Codes in Asymmetric Relationships - Tarik Solmaz: Russian Involvement in the Transnistrian War: A Prototype of Russian Modern "Hybrid Warfare"? - Kamala Valiyeva: Revisiting Moldova's Transnistria Dispute Amid Severing EU-Russia Ties - Notes on Editors - Notes on Contributors.