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The politics of the 1990s in Russia and Georgia established the canvas on which subsequent state building and institution reform processes would develop. In the 2000s, both countries embarked on serious capacity-building reforms and in particular revisited the institutional hierarchies that governed center — periphery relations. During this process, both countries found themselves embroiled in war with the same separatist territories they had fought in the 1990s. The timing was not coincidental and unfolded within a framework of state consolidation after a period of weakness. The actual conflicts emerged through central state politics of state building, which this and the next chapter will illustrate.
…Russia now is reminiscent of a decaying ancient Rome that did not feel squeamish about handing over border provinces to barbarian federates.
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George, J.A. (2009). Russia Resurgent, 1999–2006. In: The Politics of Ethnic Separatism in Russia and Georgia. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230102323_5
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