Ethnic wars and territorial disputes proliferated across the post-Soviet world by 1993

Evidence

As of early 1993, for instance, an estimated 48 ethnic wars were occurring throughout the world, and 164 “territorial-ethnic claims and conflicts concerning borders” existed in the former Soviet Union, of which 30 had involved some form of armed conflict. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 70