Between assertiveness and insecurity: Russian elite attitudes and the Russia-Georgia crisis

Post-Soviet Affairs

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 138-155

  Lapidus, Gail W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; ELITE POLITICS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

EURASIA; GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36348996560     PISSN: 1060586X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1060-586X.23.2.138     Document Type: Article

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