International crises and the gray zone: tracing crises through history
Journal: Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
Year: 2023

Chapter 1 offers an introductory overview of the key international crises that have impacted U.S., Chinese, and Russian interests between 1990 and 2020. The analysis starts with the 1990s and the paradigmatic shift brought about by the end of the Cold War. While Russia has emerged from the splintered USSR, and soon got involved in two conventional wars with Chechnya, China has been entangled in an increasingly aggressive confrontation with Taiwan, and started its expansionist policy in the South