The heartland no more: Russia’s weakness and Eurasia’s meltdown

The Eurasian region continues to disintegrate, and neither Russia nor the West has been able to arrest the destabilizing dynamics. Evidence of rising instability throughout the region include the August 2008 Russia-Georgia war, terrorist attacks in the Northern Caucasus, the persistent failure of We...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andrei P. Tsygankov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Eurasian Studies
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879366511000224