Russian civil-military relations and the origins of the second Chechen war
By: Lajos F. Szászdi
Publisher: University Press of America, Inc.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780761840374
Subjects: History; Civil-military relations
Description: Attempts to determine the cause(s) of the second Chechen War in regard to their connection with Russian civil-military relations.
Notes: Ph. D. Catholic University of America 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-374) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preamble to the causes of the second Chechen war; title: Neo-Eurasianism and Russian national security policy; title: The antecedents of the Second Chechen War; title: March 1999: the case of Major General Shpigun's Abduction; title: Enter Security Council Secretary Vladimir Putin; title: NATO's air war against Serbia: the Kosovo Crisis shoots up; title: Russia's security concerns in May: NATO and internal challenges; title: The Kosovo Crisis: the first week of June 1999; title: The Moscow talks and the Russian race to Prishtina Airport; title: The Russian military occupation of Prishtina Airport; title: Vested interests the Russian Defense Ministry and Kosovo; title: The nature of Russian Civil-Military relations in 1999: additional assumptions; title: After Kosovo: Russia, the Caucasus , an Chechnya; title: The opening stages of the Second Chechen War; title: Conclusion.