Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus

by Gerard Toal

Book Overview

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's "near abroad" - newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union and are now Russia's neighbors. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines in the wake of the global recession, the geopolitical contest that created it did not. Six years later, the spectre of a revanchist Russia returned when Putin's forces invaded and annexed the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190253304
• ISBN13: 9780190253301
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.4"