The Longer Countdown to War

Growing Confrontation between Georgia and Russia 2004-2008

Author(s): Uwe Halbach
Editor(s): Lili Di Puppo, Iris Kempe, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)
Issue: 10
Pages: 2-4
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Jefferson Institute, Washington D.C.; Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tbilisi; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2009

The military events around South Ossetia of August 2008 constitute the factual core for the military and legal assessments of the five-day war. However, the analysis of the origins of the conflict cannot focus solely on these events. The Countdown to war has to be seen in a longer perspective and the conflict developments have to be put in their historical context.

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