Russia's Geostrategic Outlook And The Syrian Crisis (St. James's Studies In World Affairs).

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter I: Rearranging the Chessboard -- An undisputed hegemon? -- Two decades of American hegemony -- The 2003 Iraq War, or the United States' Pandora's box -- Meanwhile in Russia -- "Russia is concentrating" -- Georgia and the return of the Russian Bear -- The game for the Eastern Mediterranean -- Chapter II: The Four Pillars of Russia's Geostrategy -- The politics of intervention and geostrategic interests -- The political economy of intervention -- The diplomacy of intervention -- The military dimension of intervention -- The four pillars of Russian wisdom -- Chapter III: Rearranging the Chessboard -- Chapter IV: The Roads Yet To Be Taken -- Syria's road to perdition -- Russia's road to acceptance -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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