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Russia, the Near Abroad, and the West:

Lessons from the Moldova-Transdniestria Conflict
  • ISBN-13: 9781421405650
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • By William H. Hill
  • Price: AUD $124.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/05/2013
  • Format: Hardback 296 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: International relations [JPS]
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Post-communist Russia turned against the West in the 2000s, losing its earlier eagerness to collaborate with western Europe on economic and security matters and adopting a suspicious and defensive posture. This book, investigating a diplomatic negotiation involving Russia and the formerly Soviet Moldova, explains this dramatic shift in Russian foreign policy.William H. Hill, himself a participant in the diplomatic encounter, describes a key episode that contributed to Russia's new attitude: negotiations over the Russian-leaning break-away territory of Transdniestria in Moldova and mdash;in which Moldova abandoned a Russian-supported settlement at the last minute under heavy pressure from the West. Hill's first-hand account provides a unique perspective on historical events as well as information to assist scholars and policymakers to evaluate future scenarios. When western leaders blocked what they saw as an unworkable settlement in a small, remote post-Soviet state, Kremlin leaders perceived a direct geopolitical challenge on their own turf. This event colored Russia's interpretations of subsequent western intervention in the region and mdash;in Georgia after the Rose Revolution, Ukraine in 2004, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and elsewhere throughout the former Soviet empire.

Preface
Maps of the Region
1. Introduction: How Things All Went Bad
2. Russia and the Post–Cold War Euro-Atlantic SecurityArchitecture
3. Conflict Resolution in the Former Soviet Union: Russian Mediation, Peacemaking, and Peacekeeping
4. The Soviet Collapse and the Transdniestrian Conflict
5. The Voronin Constitutional Initiative
6. The Joint Constitutional Commission: Buyers' Remorse?
7. Roadblocks over Security Issues
8. The Summer of 2003: Pressing for a Settlement
9. The Competing Negotiations
10. A Settlement Is at Hand
11. The Dénouement
12. Conflict Resolution in Moldova and East-West Relationsafter Kozak
13. Russia and the West: An Endless Dilemma?
Appendixes
A. The Mediators' Document
B. The Kozak Memorandum—September 11 Draft
C. The Kozak Memorandum—November 23 Redaction
Notes
Bibliography
Index

""A valuable study of Russian-Western relations, which should be recommended to a broad audience.""

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