Quid pro Quo: Dependent Relative Revocation and Quixotic Military Dis-encirclement
Journal: Studia Europejskie / Centrum Europejskie Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Year: 2014

Boundaries between and amongst nations are not drawn customarily by popular vote as the Russian Federation appears to imagine, naively or conveniently. They are delineated by global political agreement in the 21st century, in the past once having been decided by right of conquest. Nor are national boundaries recast periodically and whimsically by fl eeting ethnic sentiments, language preferences, religions or migrations. Pressure to alter existing and relatively long standing political boundarie