| ID | 130468 |
| Title Proper | Russia's latest land grab |
| Other Title Information | how Putin won Crimea and lost Ukraine |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Mankoff, Jeffrey |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Russia's occupation and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in February and March have plunged Europe into one of its gravest crises since the end of the Cold War. Despite analogies to Munich in 1938, however, Russia's invasion of this Ukrainian region is at once a replay and an escalation of tactics that the Kremlin has used for the past two decades to maintain its influence across the domains of the former Soviet Union. Since the early 1990s, Russia has either directly supported or contributed to the emergence of four breakaway ethnic regions in Eurasia: Transnistria, a self-declared state in Moldova on a strip of land between the Dniester River and Ukraine; Abkhazia, on Georgia's Black Sea coast; South Ossetia, in northern Georgia; and, to a lesser degree, Nagorno-Karabakh, a landlocked mountainous region in southwestern Azerbaijan that declared its independence under Armenian protection following a brutal civil war. Moscow's meddling has created so-called frozen conflicts in these states, in which the splinter territories remain beyond the control of the central governments and the local de facto authorities enjoy Russian protection and influence. |
| `In' analytical Note | Foreign Affairs Vol.93, No.3; May-June2014: p.60-68 |
| Journal Source | Foreign Affairs Vol.93, No.3; May-June2014: p.60-68 |
| Key Words | Frozen Conflict ; Crimean Conflicts ; American Protection ; Crimean Peninsula ; Georgia ; Cold War ; Ukraine ; Russia ; Russian Protection ; Geopolitics ; Ukraine Crisis ; Crimea ; Stalin's Plan ; Geo-Strategy ; Tactical Escalation ; Soviet Union ; Splinter Territories |