'Recommended.' —‘Choice’ '[Recent] crises have illustrated the urgent need to improve our understanding of the processes leading to conflicts involving former Soviet republics and the role played by Western states and institutions in post-Soviet space, and to communicate this understanding to policy-makers, the media and the general public. [This book contributes] to meeting this need, and [...] should be bought ... Read moreby libraries which support Russian or European Studies.' —Peter J. S. Duncan, ‘Slavonic and East European Review’, University College London Show Less