Description
Book SynopsisThis event colored Russia's interpretations of subsequent western intervention in the region-in Georgia after the Rose Revolution, Ukraine in 2004, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and elsewhere throughout the former Soviet empire.
Trade ReviewRussia, the Near Abroad, and the West should be required reading for all Transnistrian settlement optimists, especially for those Europeans with ambitious plans for a quick resolution outside of official channels. -- William Schreiber New Eastern Europe This book, a narrative focusing on the southwestern confines of the "Russian space," is an event unto itself; a must-read, full of inside information, for any student or scholar studying Moldova, Transnistria, and de facto statehood... -- Octavian Milewski Russian Review A valuable study of Russian-Western relations, which should be recommended to a broad audience. -- Vsevolod Samokhvalov Europe-Asia Studies
Table of ContentsPreface
Maps of the Region
1. Introduction: How Things All Went Bad
2. Russia and the Post–Cold War Euro-Atlantic SecurityArchitecture
3. Conflict Resolution in the Former Soviet Union: Russian Mediation, Peacemaking, and Peacekeeping
4. The Soviet Collapse and the Transdniestrian Conflict
5. The Voronin Constitutional Initiative
6. The Joint Constitutional Commission: Buyers' Remorse?
7. Roadblocks over Security Issues
8. The Summer of 2003: Pressing for a Settlement
9. The Competing Negotiations
10. A Settlement Is at Hand
11. The Dénouement
12. Conflict Resolution in Moldova and East-West Relationsafter Kozak
13. Russia and the West: An Endless Dilemma?
Appendixes
A. The Mediators' Document
B. The Kozak Memorandum—September 11 Draft
C. The Kozak Memorandum—November 23 Redaction
Notes
Bibliography
Index
