Ideas, Institutions, Intervention, and Ethnic Conflict: A Constructivist Analysis of Russian Peacekeeping in the Former Soviet Union
Journal: ScholarWorks -A service of University of Vermont Libraries (University of Vermont)
Year: 2018

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the fifteen union republics of the former superpower separated into newly independent sovereign states. The largest of these, the Russian Federation, has since emerged as the most capable and politically assertive and has inherited the majority of its predecessor’s geopolitical and strategic interests. Though Moscow’s interests in its “near-abroad” reflect the implications of its longstanding imperial legacy in the region, Russia entered the po