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The cornered bear : the August 2008 war in Georgia as the culmination of Russia’s western security dilemma

Ellett, Matthew HaydenThe University of Texas at Austin2012

… While several analyses have pointed to separate actions by NATO and the West as having influenced the 2008 war, this paper endeavors to show that the combined actions of the West and NATO since the fall of the Soviet Union created a security dilemma for Russia. Because the West refused to …

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