Russian Aggression in Georgia and Ukraine as an Example of State Terrorism: Comparative Analysis

Russian Aggression in Georgia and Ukraine as an Example of State Terrorism: Comparative Analysis

Gurami Jajanidze
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 41
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5311-7.ch009
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Abstract

The chapter overviews Russian aggression in Georgia and Ukraine and provides comparative analyses – demonstrating the differences and similarities between Russia's tactics and policies during Russo-Georgian war (2008), the conflict in Eastern Ukraine (2014), and later during the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022). It also analyzes Russian war crimes and atrocities committed during those conflicts. The first part was written in Spring 2021 before the war in Ukraine (2022), so initially the comparative analysis was made based on two cases – Russo-Georgian War 2008 and Russian aggression in Eastern Ukraine 2014. The second part of the chapter was written in Spring 2022 after Russia launched a full-scale invasion against Ukraine. The chapter was written based on the qualitative analyses of the existing literature – comparative analyses, researches about Russian hybrid war, independent case studies based on the information from archives of articles from the media outlets from 2008, 2014, and 2022 analyzing different documents, such as NATO summit declarations, Constitution of Russia, etc.
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Introduction

Russian aggression in Georgia in 2008 and in Ukraine in 2014 changed the overall geopolitical and security picture in Europe. Ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022) impacts the rules of the political game on the world-wide level. On the one hand Russia created significant leverages in terms of presence of its own military on the territory of those countries to influence the decisions of authorities in Tbilisi and Kyiv, on the other hand it demonstrated claims about “exclusive Russian sphere of interests” in post-Soviet space. Analyzes of those conflicts is very important as far as it concerns geopolitical and security architecture in Europe. It is important to know according to what foreign policy principles Moscow carries out its aggressive polices in the neighborhood to achieve its objectives and what is the toolkit that Russia uses against its targets. The paper will overview exactly Russia’s foreign policy thought and will provide comparative analyzes of the Kremlin’s aggression in Georgia (2008) and in Eastern Ukraine (2014) and finally Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022) - discussing the differences and similarities.

The structure of the paper is the following. As already pointed out in the abstract, the paper is divided in two parts: The first part written in spring, 2021 and the second part in spring, 2022.

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