Promotion of geopolitical interests through military intervention in regional conflicts: US/NATO intervention in former Yugoslavia in 1999 and Russian incursion into Georgia in 2008
Journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year: 2019

The August 2008 Russian use of force against sovereign Georgia shocked the international community. The intervention triggered comparisons with the US-led NATO military intervention into the former Yugoslavia in 1999. This paper explores key foreign policy interests of the US and Russia and examines how these interests were expressed in these military interventions. The analysis revealed similarities in goals and differences in approaches. Both the US and Russia promoted their national geopoliti