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Russian Military Interventions after the Cold War: Evaluating the Russian Federation's Wars book cover

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Russian Military Interventions after the Cold War Evaluating the Russian Federation's Wars

Edited By Marek Madej, Andrzej Szeptycki Copyright 2027
312 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the Russian Federation’s military interventions in the post-Cold War era.  The work connects key events – the Chechen and Georgian Wars, the annexation of Crimea, the Syrian intervention and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine – in a coherent narrative, showing how these conflicts grew out of Russia’s authoritarian turn, aggressive nationalism, imperial ambitions and... Read more

Introduction, Andrzej Szeptycki  Part I: Case Studies  Chapter 1. The First Chechen War (1994-96): Strategic Miscalculation and the Limits of the Russian Military, Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala  Chapter 2. The Second Chechen War (1999-2009): Finishing Unfinished Business by Any Means Necessary, Piotr Śledź  Chapter 3. Russia–Georgia (2008): Blitzkrieg Russian style, Patrycja Grzebyk  Chapter 4. Crimea and Donbas (2014–2022): Russia’s First (and Last?) Hybrid War, Andrzej Szeptycki  Chapter 5. Syria (2015-2024): Out of area à la russe, Piotr Śledź and Marek Madej  Chapter 6. Ukraine (since 2022): From a “three-to-ten-day war” to an eternity?, Marek Madej and Andrzej Szeptycki  Part II: Trends  Chapter 7. The Contemporary Russian Way of War:  Heavy Metal Dies Hard, Marek Madej and Piotr Śledź  Chapter 8. The Law as the Sharpest Sword in the Russian Arsenal: The Instrumentalization of International Law in Russia’s Wars, Patrycja Grzebyk  Chapter 9. The Exploitation of Human Suffering:  The Humanitarian Consequences of Russia’s Wars, Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala  Chapter 10. That Worked, Let’s Do It Again! War as a Means of National Consolidation in Post-Soviet Russia, Alicja Curanović  Chapter 11. Russia’s Wars and the Contemporary International Order, Roman Kuźniar  Conclusions: On the Efficacy and Efficiency of Russian Military Engagements After the Cold War, Marek Madej

Biography

Marek Madej is Associate Professor at the Department of Strategic Studies and International Security, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw, Poland, and is editor of Military Interventions After the Cold War: Evaluating the Wars of the West (Routledge 2019).

Andrzej Szeptycki is Full Professor at the Department of Strategic Studies and International Security, the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw, Poland, and Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland.

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