What Comes After the Russo–Georgian War? What's at Stake in the CIS∗

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Abstract Analyses of the motivations behind Russia's recent war against Georgia, its unrelenting pressure on Ukraine to cede more and more aspects of its sovereignty, and its ambitions not only to dominate the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) but to prevent the enlargement of NATO and the EU and return the world to the bipolar order that existed during the cold war era, as well as the security implications for Europe and the United States if Russia succeeds in realizing its plan, constitute the central focus of this article.