Security
Few analysts have followed Putin’s new Caucasus initiatives. Given events in Syria, Ukraine, and East Asia, that neglect may be understandable, but it is a mistaken and harmful neglect because it causes us to overlook the overall strategic dimensions of Russian policy here. Moscow’s gambits in the Caucasus are inextricably bound up with its larger strategy and priorities of establishing an incontestable exclusive sphere of influence in the former Soviet Union and on that basis projecting its …read more
Source: Intersection