Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: how things all went bad
  • Russia and the post-Cold War Euro-Atlantic security architecture
  • Conflict resolution in the former Soviet Union: Russian mediation, peacemaking, and peacekeeping
  • The Soviet collapse and the Transdniestrian conflict
  • The Voronin constitutional initiative
  • The joint constitutional commission: buyers' remorse?
  • Roadblocks over security issues
  • The summer of 2003: pressing for a settlement
  • The competing negotiations
  • A settlement is at hand
  • The dénouement
  • Conflict resolution in Moldova and East-West relations after Kozak
  • Russia and the West: an endless dilemma?