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Nationalist Grievance and Russian Foreign Policy: The Case of Georgia

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Russia and its Near Neighbours

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‘The Russians are coming.’ Western discussion in the last half-decade has focused on an increasingly ‘assertive’ and even ‘aggressive’ Russian foreign policy underpinning growing confidence about Russia’s global position. From a Russia that could only say ‘yes’ to the West in the 1990s, the West was apparently now confronting a Russia that could, and would, say ‘no’ (Connor, 2007, pp. 383–91).

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March, L. (2012). Nationalist Grievance and Russian Foreign Policy: The Case of Georgia. In: Freire, M.R., Kanet, R.E. (eds) Russia and its Near Neighbours. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230390164_4

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