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Russian Grand Strategy? Russia’s Promotion of Armed Conflicts in the South Caucasus

SHEVCHUK, Zinaida

Základní údaje

Originální název

Russian Grand Strategy? Russia’s Promotion of Armed Conflicts in the South Caucasus

Vydání

Sofia, SGEM: Political Sciences Proceedings, od s. 501-506, 6 s. 2016

Nakladatel

International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Science and Arts

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Stať ve sborníku

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Bulharsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/16:00093043

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

ISBN

978-619-7105-51-3

Klíčová slova anglicky

Grand strategy armed conflicts Russia South Caucasus
Změněno: 20. 1. 2017 15:34, Mgr. Zinaida Bechná, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

One of the long-term grand strategic goals of Russia in the South Caucasus region is to keep Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in its zone of “privileged interest” as a satellite states and restrict the penetration of Western power. The implication for Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia is the biggest challenge to their security and unresolved conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Russia is reluctant to lose its dominance in the South Caucasus and its military presence in the region is the highest in the last twenty years. Russia’s operationalization of the New-Generation Warfare has demonstrated that the ancient Soviet art of reflexive control can set a dangerous pattern for security architecture in the whole post-Soviet region. The study sheds a light on Russia´s power-projection tools and practices in the armed conflicts of the South Caucasus region after the Russian-Georgian armed conflict in 2008. The finding of this research draws some tentative conclusions about Russian strategy in “frozen” conflicts in the Post-Soviet space, as a tool to keep these states from the NATO and EU membership in future.