Russia and the relationship between law and power

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knygos / Books
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Russia and the relationship between law and power
Authors:
Terry, James P
Publication Data:
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, 2014.
Pages:
172 p
Contents:
Foreword — Preface — Introduction: Understanding the Significance Moscow Places on the Role of Law — Hungary 1956: "Fraternal Assistance" Unmasked — The Soviet Decision-Making Process in Hungary — Establishment of a Post-World War II Security Perimeter Around the U.S.S.R. — The Seeds of Conflict — The Invasion — The Soviet Rationale — The Core International Law Issues in Hungary — Debunking the Legal Basis for Soviet Presence on Hungarian Soil — Absence of Legal Authority to Intervene under the Warsaw Pact — Legality Under the United Nations Charter — Validity of the Kadar Request for Assistance — Compliance with the Bandung Declaration of 1955 — Role of Nationalism as an Indicator of Future Intervention Within the Collective — The Role of Western Response in Soviet Decision-Making — Czechoslovakia 1968: The Law of Coexistence in Conflict with Contemporary International Law — The Soviet Formulation of the Law of Coexistence — The Catalyst of Intervention: Domestic Ferment — Developing Concern in the Warsaw Pact — The Interventionists Versus the Non-Interventionists — The Decision to Intervene — The Intervention — The Soviet Rationale — Soviet Legal Justification and Socialist International Law — Socialist Internationalism Applied to the Intervention in Czechoslovakia — The Brezhnev Doctrine in the Context of Contemporary International Law — Soviet Claims Under the Law of Self-Defense — Regional Arrangements — Assessing the Costs of Intervention — Afghanistan 1979: The Brezhnev Doctrine Extended Beyond the Warsaw Pact — Introduction — Strategic Location and People — The Soviet Rationale for Intervention — The U.S. Response — Soviet Legal Claims — Analysis of U.S. Actions Under the Law of Armed Conflict — Poland 1981: Soviet Intervention "By Proxy" — The Historical Record — The Gomulka Years — Years of Crisis: 1968-1971 — Decline of the Gierek Economic Model — The 1980 Labor Unrest — The Soviet Role —Soviets in Violation of Their Commitment to Self-Determination — Poland and the Right of Self-Determination — Western Response to Soviet Violations in Poland — Lithuania 1991: Intervention Gives Way to Independence — Subjugation of Lithuania in Historical Context — Right of Self-Determination Applied to Lithuania — United States Support for Lithuania — Soviet Commitments at Helsinki Affecting Lithuania — Lithuania in Perspective — The Chechen Crises 1994 and 1999 — The Seeds of the Crisis with Grozny — The 1994 Russian Attack on Chechnya — The 1999 Chechen Crisis — The Rule of Law Trampled — United States and Western Inaction — The Chechen Crisis in Perspective — Crisis in the Caucasus: Georgia and South Ossetia — The Seeds of Conflict — The Russian Perspective — The U.S. Posture — The Road Ahead — Observations and Conclusions: Moscow's Approach to International Law Commitments — Index.
Subject Category:
LT
Čekijos Respublika (Czech Republic); Lenkija (Poland); Lietuva (Lithuania); Rusija (Russia); Vengrija (Hungary).
Summary / Abstract:

LTKnygoje „Russia and the Relationship Between Law and Power“ nagrinėjama Maskvos užsienio politika, siekiant įtraukti į savo įtakos zoną ir sudaryti prorusiškas vyriausybes Rytų Europos bei Pietvakarių Azijos šalyse. Atidžiai tyrinėti bei analizuoti įvykiai Vengrijoje (1956 m.) ir Čekoslovakijoje (1968 m.), intervencija į Afganistaną (1979 m.), krizės Lenkijoje (1981-82 m.) ir Baltijos valstybėse (1990 m.), karas Čečėnijoje (1996 ir 1999 m.) ir Gruzijoje (taip pat Pietų Osetijoje bei Abchazijoje, 2008 m.). Visos intervencijos (išskyrus į Afganistaną) buvo vykdytos, remiantis Varšuvos sutarties ketvirtuoju straipsniu arba nota (Čečėnijos ir Gruzijos atvejai), jog Maskva gina teisėtus savo piliečių interesus kitose šalyse. Šis leidinys yra skiriamas rusofilams, tarptautinės teisės ir politikos mokslų studentams, istorikams, Rytų Europos studijų studentams, doktorantams ir dėstytojams.

ENRussia and the Relationship Between Law and Power addresses the development of a self-serving international policy by Moscow to serve its interests and subjugate client regimes in Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia. The events leading to the Hungarian crisis in 1956, the Czech crisis in 1968, the Afghan invasion in 1979, the Polish crisis in 1981-82, the Baltic crisis in 1990, the Chechen invasions in both 1996 and 1999, and the crisis in Georgia in 2008 (including South Ossetia and Abkhazia) are carefully explored and dissected. Each of these interventions (except Afghanistan) was executed under claim of right under Rule IV of the Warsaw Pact, or a claim, in Chechnya and in Georgia in 2008, that Moscow was defending its inherent national interests as the result of the presence of its citizens in that territory. This is a text that will have wide appeal for Russophiles, students of international law and politics, historians, students of Eastern European studies, and undergraduates, graduate students, and professors in each of these disciplines.

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