Georgia and Kosovo: A Single Intertwined Crisis
Stratfor.com
28 Agosto 2008
The Russo-Georgian war was rooted in broad geopolitical processes. In
large part it was simply the result of the cyclical reassertion of
Russian power. The Russian empire — czarist and Soviet — expanded to
its borders in the 17th and 19th centuries. It collapsed in 1992. The
Western powers wanted to make the disintegration permanent. It was
inevitable that Russia would, in due course, want to reassert its
claims. That it happened in Georgia was simply the result of
circumstance.
There is, however, another context within which to view this, the
context of Russian perceptions of U.S. and European intentions and of U.
S. and European perceptions of Russian capabilities. This context
shaped the policies that led to the Russo-Georgian war. And those
attitudes can only be understood if we trace the question of Kosovo,
because the Russo-Georgian war was forged over the last decade over the
Kosovo question.
Yugoslavia broke up into …
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