TY - BOOK AU - Cornell,Svante E. AU - Starr,S.Frederick ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The guns of August 2008: Russia's war in Georgia T2 - Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus AV - DK676.9.R8 G86 2009 U1 - 947.5808/62 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Armonk, N.Y. PB - M.E. Sharpe KW - National security KW - Europe KW - Case studies KW - Georgia (Republic) KW - Military relations KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Foreign relations KW - South Ossetia (Georgia) KW - History, Military KW - 21st century KW - Abkhazia (Georgia) KW - Caucasus, South KW - Military policy KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The paradox of living in paradise : Georgia's descent into chaos / Thomas Goltz -- Georgian-Russian relations in the 1990s / Thornike Gordadze -- The Russian leadership's preparation for war, 1999-2008 / Andrei Illarionov -- Georgia's Rose Revolution : the break with the past / Niklas Nilsson -- From neglect to duress : the West and the Georgian crisis before the 2008 war / Stephen Blank -- The Saakashvili administration's reaction to Russian policies before the 2008 war / David Smith -- From Sukhumi to Tskhinvali : the path to war in Georgia / Johanna Popjanevski -- After August 7 : the escalation of the Russia-Georgia war / Pavel Felgenhauer -- Defining victory and defeat : the information war between Russia and Georgia / Paul Goble -- The external implications of the Russia-Georgia war / James Sherr; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1968809 ER -