TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tohme,Hicham
TI  - Russia's Geostrategic Outlook And The Syrian Crisis (St. James's Studies In World Affairs)
SN  - 9781680539769
AV  - DK68.7.S95 .T646 2019 
U1  - 956.910423347 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - La Vergne
PB  - Academica Press
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Russia (Federation)-Foreign relations-Syria
KW  - Syria-History-Civil War, 2011-
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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