Is Nationalism Rising in Russian Foreign Policy?: The Case of Georgia
Journal: Demokratizatsiya The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization
Year: 2011

Western discussion during the last half-decade has increasingly focussed on an ''assertive and even ''aggressive Russian foreign policy that underpins an ever more confident global position. From a Russia that could only say yes in the 1990s, the West is apparently now confronting a Russia that can, and will, say no.1For many analysts, this assertive stance has been associated with distinct ideational underpinnings that have sought to challenge Western liberalism. Although ''sovereign democracy