A Little War That Shook the World: Georgia, Russia and the Future of the West

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Overview

The brief war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 seemed to many like an unexpected shot out of the blue that was gone as quickly as it came. Former Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Ronald Asmus contends that it was a conflict that was prepared and planned for some time by Moscow, part of a broader strategy to send a message to the United States: that Russia is going to flex its muscle in the twenty-first century. A Little War that Shook the World is a fascinating look at the breakdown of relations between Russia and the West, the decay and decline of the Western Alliance itself, and the fate of Eastern Europe in a time of economic crisis.

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Asmus (executive director, Transatlantic Ctr., Brussels; Opening NATO's Door), who was in the Department of State under President Clinton, presents a clear, workmanlike analysis of the brief war that erupted between Russia and Georgia in August 2008. Although he doesn't ever go for Churchillian oratory—which is both a strength and a weakness of Martin Sixsmith's Putin's Oil—his prose never bogs down in passages that can't be easily understood. Instead, he provides a compelling account of why Georgia felt that it had to take action to try to preserve its independence against Russian encirclement and what the Western powers did (and didn't do) to stop the war. Asmus attempts to cover a great deal, but he doesn't always go into the detail promised at the book's beginning, especially regarding Russia's reasons for rejecting moving forward as part of the West and instead turning toward its own Eurasian orientation. VERDICT Despite minor flaws, this book provides some sound conclusions and is strongly recommended for all readers, general or academic, seriously interested in this component of today's international affairs.—Rob Langenderfer, Brown Mackie Coll. Lib., Fort Mitchell, KY

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780230617735
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication date: 1/19/2010
  • Pages: 254
  • Sales rank: 640,538
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Ronald Asmus is executive director of the Brussels-based Transatlantic Center and responsible for Strategic Planning at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He is the former deputy assistant secretary of state for European Affairs during President Clinton’s second term. He has published numerous essays over the years on US-European relations, including in Foreign Affairs, Survival, the American Interest and Policy Review. He is the author of Opening Nato's Door, a contributor to The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic, and others, and is a commentator in both the American and European news media. He lives in Brussels, Belgium.

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  • Posted February 9, 2010

    Badly written, biased

    The book is an attempt to examine objectively the causes and circumstances surroundong the 2008 war between Georgia and Russia, but, in my opinion it falls well short of the goal. The book is badly written and heavily biased. It does not get to the root of the matter, which is the Georgian nationalism turned violent and its blind support from the U.S. government.

    As a Georgian living in the U.S., I am deeply ashamed of the way my country attacked the Ossetian civilians and Russian peacekeepers, and of the fact that president Saakashvili lied to the whole world about that. I hope he is not reelected, and Georgia can become REALLY democratic and prosperous. And unified.

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  • Posted April 6, 2010

    A howling untruth in an otherwise very interesting book

    In trying to explain the deep psychological and patriotic feelings that motivated President Saakashvili and the Georgians during the August 2008 war, Ronald Asmus goes back to the First Georgian Republic of 1918-21 and writes: "The decision by the government in Tbilisi then (in 1921) not to fight for their independence left a legacy that would shape Saakashvili's decision in August 2008. It had taken Georgia seventy years to regain its independence and many Georgians were not about to give it up a second time without a fight" And he repeats several times in his book the astonishing assertion that the 1921 Georgian government chose not to fight the invading red army.
    Nothing could be further from the truth, so much so that I am totally amazed that this complete reversal of history could have found credence with such a savvy gentleman as Mr. Asmus. The facts can be easily ascertained. [ I invite the interested reader to Google these words: Georgia - 1921 - red army, and peruse the results.]
    In brief: in 1921 the red army attacked with overwhelming numbers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and from the North through the mountain passes as well as alongside the coast of the Black Sea. The Turks joined in, and invaded from the South. Everywhere the invaders met with fierce resistance, so much so that it took over one full month for the Reds to seize all of little Georgia.
    A grace note: before being finally vanquished, in a quixotic action the remnants of the Georgian army attacked and defeated the Turks who had occupied Batumi, so that the region would remain part of Georgia.
    I am at a loss for where Mr. Asmus found his totally erroneous information. Perhaps he confounded the year 1921 with the year 1805, when Russian forces indeed entered Georgia without a shot in response to a plea for help against the Moslem invaders from the South, and ended up annexing the country.
    President Saakashvili is extraordinarily well-informed. I am certain he is well aware of the fact that in 1921 the first republic fought with all its might against the communist invader, and therefore the memory of those times cannot have had on him the psychological impact asserted here. I heartily hope Mr. Asmus will correct this egregious distortion of history in future editions of his book, which otherwise is well worth reading.

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