NATO's push into the Caucasus: geopolitical flashpoints and limits for expansion. Issue 4 (2nd October 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- NATO's push into the Caucasus: geopolitical flashpoints and limits for expansion. Issue 4 (2nd October 2017)
- Main Title:
- NATO's push into the Caucasus: geopolitical flashpoints and limits for expansion
- Authors:
- Antonopoulos, Paul
Velez, Renato
Cottle, Drew - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: The Caucasus has been a major flashpoint of contention between NATO and a resurgent Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The rivalry saw the escalation of hostility in the region during the brief 2008 Russo-Georgian War where a NATO-backed Georgia challenged South Ossetia supported by the Russian military. In 2011, NATO officially recognised Georgia as a potential member, challenging Russia's traditional sphere of influence in the Caucasus. Moscow says the Eastward expansion of NATO into the Baltics and to include Georgia as a member state is a method of containing a resurgent Russia. However, the former Soviet Republics of Ukraine, the Baltics and Georgia, maintain that Russia represents a threat to their sovereignty, as seen by the Russian support of the breakaway unrecognised Republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. A hostile rivalry between the Russian-backed Armenia and Azerbaijan, which is reliant upon NATO-member Turkey, intensifies the polarisation in the Caucasus.
- Is Part Of:
- Defense and security analysis. Volume 33:Issue 4(2017)
- Journal:
- Defense and security analysis
- Issue:
- Volume 33:Issue 4(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 33, Issue 4 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0033-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 366
- Page End:
- 379
- Publication Date:
- 2017-10-02
- Subjects:
- NATO -- Russia -- Caucasus -- Georgia -- Azerbaijan
Military art and science -- Periodicals
Armed Forces -- Periodicals
Military policy -- Periodicals
National security -- Periodicals
World politics -- Periodicals
355 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cdan20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/14751798.2017.1379119 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1475-1798
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- Legaldeposit
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