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Plucky Little Russia: Misreading The Georgian War Through The Distorting Lens Of Aggression, Timothy W. Waters Jan 2013

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

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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 doctrine — this is not supposed to happen.

The key to this puzzle is the special regime …


Book Review. Boundary Issues In Central Asia By Necati Polat, Elizabeth Larson Goldberg Jan 2003

Book Review. Boundary Issues In Central Asia By Necati Polat, Elizabeth Larson Goldberg

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No abstract provided.


Marxism And The Failure Of Environmental Protection In Eastern Europe And The U.S.S.R., Daniel H. Cole Jan 1993

Marxism And The Failure Of Environmental Protection In Eastern Europe And The U.S.S.R., Daniel H. Cole

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No abstract provided.


China's Use Of International Law In Border Disputes: The Cases Of India And The Soviet Union, Larry R. Schreiter Oct 1974

China's Use Of International Law In Border Disputes: The Cases Of India And The Soviet Union, Larry R. Schreiter

IUSTITIA

Despite American "containment" in the fifties and sixties, China was nevertheless a major actor on the international scene. The loci of China's practice of international politics ranged from the Bandung Conference to its ideological foray into European politics following the Hungarian rebellion in 1956. Along with this activism in the international environment, China turned her attention in the late fifties to the question of gaining mutual agreements with her neighbors on the delineation and regulation of the boundaries. This concern brought about some marked changes in bilateral foreign policy, and required dealings of both an ideological as well as technical …


Book Review. Law In The Soviet Society (Wayne R. Lafave, Ed.), Jurij Fedynskyj Jan 1968

Book Review. Law In The Soviet Society (Wayne R. Lafave, Ed.), Jurij Fedynskyj

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Book Review. The Captive Nations: Nationalism Of The Non-Russian Nations In The Soviet Union By Roman Smal-Stocki, Jurij Fedynskyj Jan 1961

Book Review. The Captive Nations: Nationalism Of The Non-Russian Nations In The Soviet Union By Roman Smal-Stocki, Jurij Fedynskyj

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National Communism And Soviet Strategy, By Dinko A. Tomasic, Fedor I. Cicak Oct 1957

National Communism And Soviet Strategy, By Dinko A. Tomasic, Fedor I. Cicak

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Sovietization Of An Occupied Area Through The Medium Of The Courts (Northern Bukovina), Jurij Fedynskyj Jan 1953

Sovietization Of An Occupied Area Through The Medium Of The Courts (Northern Bukovina), Jurij Fedynskyj

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