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  title info:
    title: Near abroad
    sub title: Putin, the West, and the contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus
  name:
    name part: Toal, Gerard
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 387 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: Vladimir Putin's intervention into the Georgia/South Ossetia conflict in summer 2008 was quickly recognized by Western critics as an attempt by Russia to increase its presence and power in the "near abroad," or the independent states of the former Soviet Union that Russia still regards as its wards. Though the global economic recession that began in 2008 moved the incident to the back of the world's mind, Russia surged to the forefront again six years later when they invaded the heavily Russian Crimea in Ukraine and annexed it. In contrast to the earlier Georgia episode, this new conflict has generated a crisis of global proportions, forcing European countries to rethink their relationship with Russia and their reliance on it for energy supplies, as Russia was now squeezing natural gas from what is technically Ukraine. In Near Abroad, the eminent political geographer Gerard Toal analyzes Russia's recent offensive actions in the near abroad, focusing in particular on the ways in which both the West and Russia have relied on Cold War-era rhetorical and emotional tropes that distort as much as they clarify. In response to Russian aggression, US critics quickly turned to tried-and-true concepts like "spheres of influence" to condemn the Kremlin. Russia in turn has brought back its long tradition of criticizing western liberalism and degeneracy to grandly rationalize its behavior in what are essentially local border skirmishes. It is this tendency to resort to the frames of earlier eras that has led the conflicts to "jump scales," moving from the regional to the global level in short order. The ambiguities and contradictions that result when nations marshal traditional geopolitical arguments, rooted in geography, territory and old understandings of distance, further contributes to the escalation of these conflicts. Indeed, Russia's belligerence toward Georgia stemmed from concern about its possible entry into NATO, an organization of states thousands of miles away. Ameri…
  note: Gerard Toal.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ru---
    geographic code: e-ur---
    geographic code: e-un---
  subject:
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Former Soviet republics
  subject:
    geographic: Former Soviet republics
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
  subject:
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Western countries
  subject:
    geographic: Western countries
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
  subject:
    topic: Geopolitics
    geographic: Former Soviet republics
  subject:
    geographic: Crimea (Ukraine)
    topic: Annexation to Russia (Federation)
  subject:
    topic: South Ossetia War, 2008
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration
  classification: DK510.764 .T63 2017
  classification: 947.086/4
  identifier: 9780190253301
  identifier: 0190253304
  identifier: 9780190253325
  identifier: 0190253320
  identifier: 2016047090
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161117
    record change date: 20170926152145.0
    record identifier: in00003733951