The United States' and the West's Implication in Modern Post-Soviet Conflicts, from Ukraine to Georgia

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Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - Region: Russia, grade: 97%, course: U.S. Foreign Policy and Russia: Challenges and Opportunities, language: English, abstract: This paper aims at measuring the relative impact the West and essentially the United States of America had on two escalations within the post-soviet space, disrupting Russias sphere of influence. It is focused on a comparative approach, distinguishing differences in how the U.S. weighed in on different developments. We will argue that while the West mingled in Ukraines internal affairs, contributing to the countrys political instability, its implication was very different from the one it had in the 2008 wars in the Caucasus, being Georgia and its territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

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