Russia's reluctant retreat from the caucasus: Abkhazia, Georgia and the US after 11 September 2001

Realignments in Russian Foreign Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 127-145

  Fawn, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203010884     Document Type: Chapter

References (19)

1. Steven Lee Myers, 'Russia Recasts Bog in Caucasus as War on Terror', The New York Times, 5 Oct. 2002.
2. Office of the Press Secretary, 'President Meets with Muslim Leaders: Remarks by the President in Meeting with Muslim Community Leaders', 26 Sept. 2002:www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010926-8.html.
3. 'Strange Bangs: Trouble is Brewing in the Caucasus as Chechen Fighters Head West', The Economist, 11 Oct. 2001. The article twice referred to the war as having been in 1991.
4. Michael Wines, 'In a Sad Hotel, Caucasus War Refugees Make Do', The New York Times, 16 April 2002, p. A8.
5. 'Abkhaz Planes "Bomb Georgian Forces'", 11 Oct. 2001: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1593000/1593716.stm.
6. Pavel Baev, Russia's Policies in the Caucasus (London: Royal Inst. of Int. Affairs 1997) p. 47.
7. Liz Fuller, 'Georgia Joins CIS', and 'Russian-Georgian Troop Agreement Signed', RFE-RL News Briefs, 2/42, 11-15 Oct. 1993, p. 7.
8. John Diedrich, This Week Green Berets Began Trying to Turn Georgia's Soldiers into Professionals', The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2002.
9. 'Briefing on Georgia Train and Equip Program at Georgian Ministry of Defense', 2 May 2002: http://web.sanet.ge/usembassy/mindef.htm.
10. 'Abkhazia Blames Terror Acts on Georgian Terrorists', ITAR-TASS, 27 March 2002.
11. Paul Quinn-Judge, 'Down But Not Out: The Breakaway Republic of Abkhazia Braces for Another Attack from Georgia', Time International, 20 May 2002.
12. Anna Badkhen, 'Georgia Has Its Own Agenda: US Trainers Seen as Allies Against Secessionists', San Fransisco Chronicle, 21 March 2002.
13. David Filipov, 'US Aid Bolsters Georgia's Militancy', The Boston Globe, 31 March 2002.
14. 'Report of the Secretary-General Concerning the Situation in Abkhazia, Georgia', presented to the Security Council, 24 Oct. 2001.
15. Paul B.Henze, 'Abkhazia Diary-1997', in Mehmet Tütüncü (ed.), Caucasus: War and Peace: The New World Disorder and Caucasia (Haarlem, Netherlands: SOTA 1998) p. 101.
16. Jeffrey Record, 'Collapsed Countries, Casualty Dead, and the New American Way of War', Parameters: US Army College Quarterly XXXII/2 (Summer 2002) p. 4.
17. Alice Lagnado, 'Russians Withdraw After Stand-Off', Financial Times, 15 April 2002.
18. For a strong argument outlining this Russian position, see Sergo A.Mikoyan, 'Russia, the US and Regional Conflict in Eurasia', Survival 40/3 (Autumn 1998) pp. 112-26.
19. Igor Torbakov, 'Does Moscow's Reaction to Developments in Georgia Herald the End of Eurasia?': www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav030502.shtml, posted on 5 March 2002.