Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Starr

Broschiertes Buch

The Guns of August 2008

Russia's War in Georgia

Beschreibung

In the summer of 2008, a conflict that appeared to have begun in the breakaway Georgian territory of South Ossetia rapidly escalated to become the most significant crisis in European security in a decade. This book presents facts about the events of August 2008 along with comprehensive coverage of the background to those events.

Autor

Svante E. Cornell is Research Director of the American Foreign Policy Council's Asia-Caucasus Institute in Washington, DC and a co-founder of the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm, Sweden. Cornell was educated at the Middle East Technical University and Uppsala University. He formerly served as Associate Professor at Uppsala University and at Johns Hopkins-University-SAIS, and is also a Policy Advisor with the Jewish Institute for National Security of American and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences.

Produktdetails

• Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780765625083
• ISBN-10: 0765625083
• Artikelnr.: 26607069