The Roots of Subversion
Journal: Cornell University Press eBooks
Year: 2020

This chapter assesses the role of the two conditions considered in the previous chapter’s statistical analysis through a comparison of Russia’s relations with the fourteen other post-Soviet states. The evidence reveals several important takeaways. First, the cases show that motive and means must coincide together. Though it was highly motivated, Russia did not subvert Estonia because it could not find agents on the ground. Nor did Russia act in the early 1990s to undermine Ukraine’s state consol