Sovereignty from within -- The vanguard Central European States -- The vanguard Former Soviet Republics -- The late-bloomer republics -- Russia and Eurasia--where to?
Summary
Although the score of countries comprising Russia's near abroad (the former non-Russian Soviet republics) and far abroad (the former non-Russian Warsaw Pact states) are behaving with variably increasing independence in their domestic and foreign policies, Russia continues to regard them as remaining within the same core-periphery sphere of influence formerly exerted by the Soviet Union within the same geographic space. Russia misinterprets bids by these countries to adopt liberalizing structural reforms and to join Euro-Atlantic organizations as foreign-inspired and inimical to Russia's securi
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-172) and index
