Mezhnatsional'nye/mezhetnicheskie konflikty v stranakh SNG stali ne tol'ko problemoy nomer odin vnutrenney politiki samikh gosudarstv, no i prichinoy neskryvaemoy ozabochennosti mirovogo soobshchestva. Dannyy fakt, vo mnogom neozhidannyy dlya podavlyayushchego bol'shinstva zhiteley etikh stran, pokazyvaet, chto osoznannoy neobkhodimost'yu yavlyaetsya opredelenie prichin mezhnatsional'noy/mezhetnicheskoy rozni, ponimanie eye razrushayushchego faktora v garmonichnom vzaimodeystvii etnosov, siloyu istoricheskikh prichin okazavshikhsya prozhivayushchimi na odnoy territorii, v odnom - novom - gosudarstve, chto prichiny natsionalizma, podcherkivaem, natsionalizma tipicheskogo, i mezhnatsional'nykh/mezhetnicheskikh konfliktov gorazdo glubzhe, chem eto ranee predstavlyalos', vopros mezhnatsional'nykh otnosheniy porozhdaetsya ne stol'ko sotsial'noy neodnorodnost'yu natsional'nykh obrazovaniy, skol'ko zakonomernostyami razvitiya natsiy\i etnosov