{"product_id":"near-abroad-gerard-toal-9780190069513","title":"Near Abroad: Putin, the West, and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus","description":"Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's \"near abroad\"--newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union and are now Russia's neighbors. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines in the wake of the global recession, the geopolitical contest that created it did not. In \u003cem\u003eNear Abroad\u003c\/em\u003e, Gerard Toal moves beyond the polemical rhetoric that surrounds Russia's interventions in Georgia and Ukraine to study the underlying territorial conflicts and geopolitical struggles. Central to understanding are legacies of the Soviet Union collapse: unresolved territorial issues, weak states and a conflicted geopolitical culture in Russia over the new territorial order. Toal explains the road to invasion and war in Georgia and Ukraine, thereafter, and provides an account of real life geopolitics, one that emphasizes changing spatial relationships, geopolitical cultures and the power of media images. Not only a penetrating analysis of Russia's relationships with its regional neighbors, \u003cem\u003eNear Abroad\u003c\/em\u003e also offers an analysis of how US geopolitical culture frequently fails to fully understand Russia and the geopolitical archipelago of dependencies in its near abroad.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerard Toal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190069511\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190069513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Gerard Toal","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046063501567,"sku":"9780190069513","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5192dd28-3b6c-4ecd-ae83-24e6c8ae8aa6.jpg?v=1684982407","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/near-abroad-gerard-toal-9780190069513","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}