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Plucky Little Russia: Misreading The Georgian War Through The Distorting Lens Of Aggression, Timothy W. Waters

Timothy W Waters

Plucky Little Russia: Misreading the Georgian War through the Distorting Lens of Aggression Timothy William Waters Abstract One might expect massed armor crossing an international frontier to constitute the paradigmatic example of aggression – a case perfectly fit to analyze with the rules of jus ad bellum – and in the first flush and shock of the Georgian War in 2008, this is exactly how Western leaders described Russia’s actions. Yet that August, a constellation of circumstances combined to produce an anomalous outcome: an international war without any aggressor or any wrongful violation of territorial integrity. In theory – in …