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Author: Gerard Toal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0190253304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn sum, by showing how and why local regional disputes quickly develop into global crises through the paired power of historical memory and time-space compression, Near Abroad reshapes our understanding of the current conflict raging in the center of the Eurasian landmass and international politics as a whole.
Author: Dina R. Spechler
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2021-06-15
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781498588737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPutin has re-established Russia's claim to world power by strengthening his autocratic rule at home, dominating or intimidating smaller independent neighbors and maintaining a pragmatic partnership with China. Russian policies depend on the use of oil and gas revenues, whose long-term prospects are questionable.
Author: M. Freire
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-05-15
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0230390161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussia has recently re-emerged as the dominant political, economic and military actor in former Soviet nations. Kanet and Freire bring together a stellar cast of contributors to consider Russia's recent return as a major regional and international actor and its likely future policy toward its neighbours.
Author: Richard Lugar
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9780876092033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: CAITLIN. FINLAYSON
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Published: 2019
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Franck Billé
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1906924872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of border. Despite their proximity, their interactions with each other - and with their third neighbour Mongolia - are rarely discussed. Although the three countries share a boundary, their traditions, languages and worldviews are remarkably different. Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how the borders between these unique countries are enacted, produced, and crossed. It sheds light on global uncertainties: China's search for energy resources and the employment of its huge population, Russia's fear of Chinese migration, and the precarious independence of Mongolia as its neighbours negotiate to extract its plentiful resources. Bringing together anthropologists, sociologists and economists, this timely collection of essays offers new perspectives on an area that is currently of enormous economic, strategic and geo-political relevance.
Author: Mikhail Volodarsky
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-23
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1135195307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolodarsky (Russian and East European studies, Tel Aviv U.) argues that the new Soviet Union continued Imperial Russia's policy of controlling its southern neighbors through promises and threats.
Author: Zbigniew Wojnowski
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1442631074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Near Abroad, Zbigniew Wojnowski traces how Soviet Ukrainian identities developed in dialogue and confrontation with the USSR's neighbours in Eastern Europe.
Author: B. George Hewitt
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-03-27
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9004248935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 2008 Georgian-Russian war focused the world’s attention on the Caucasus. South Ossetia and Abkhazia had been de facto independent since the early 1990s. However, Russia’s granting of recognition on 26 August 2008 changed regional dynamics. The Caucasus is one of the most ethnically diverse areas on earth, and the conflicts examined here present their own complexities. This book sets the issues in their historical and political contexts and discusses potential future problems. This volume is distinguished from others devoted to the same themes by the extensive use the author (a Georgian specialist) makes of Georgian sources, inaccessible to most commentators. His translated citations thus cast a unique and revealing light on the interethnic relations that have fuelled these conflicts.
Author: Nora Vanaga
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780815370154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited volume examines deterrence and the defense efforts of European states neighboring Russia, following the Crimean intervention. Deterrence, after being largely absent from debates among academics and policy-makers for almost a quarter of a century, has made a comeback in Europe. Since Russia's annexation of Crimea and the start of the military conflict in Ukraine's Donbass region, eastern and northern European states have revised their assessments of Russia's policies and intentions. The approach used by Russia in Ukraine has rendered lessons learned from the Cold War deterrence only partially applicable due to the changing security situation in Europe. The emergence of the cyber realm, a smaller emphasis on nuclear deterrence, and the ideological conflict between Russia and the West, are among the key differences between the Cold War and the current security environment. Structured into two parts, the first part discusses conceptual aspects of deterrence, while the second discusses ten country case studies, which include both NATO and non-NATO countries. This allows for an in-depth analysis of the changing character of deterrence and its practical application by Russia's European neighbours. This volume will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, European politics, Russian foreign policy, security studies and international relations in general.
