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This book examines how the Russian Empire expanded across the barrier of the Caucasus mountains to take control of the Georgian lands at the close of the eighteenth century. With no organized plan for conquest, Imperial policy fluctuated based both on personnel changes in the Imperial government and strategic re-evaluations of Imperial interests. Particular attention is paid to the role of two significant individuals - Princes Potemkin and Tsitsianov - in pushing the Empire toward total incorporation.

Résumé Dans cette analyse de trois ouvrages de politique étrangère écrits par des auteurs de sensibilité démocrate, Nikolas Gvosdev souligne combien l'ombre de Franklin Roosevelt a pesé sur cette élection. Le besoin d'affirmer leur détermination, face à un parti républicain qui jouit toujours d'une prime de confiance en matière de sécurité, a incité les démocrates à définir une approche ferme de la sécurité nationale. Mais ils n'ont fait que revenir à la source en épousant le réalisme de la politique rooseveltienne qui fonda l'ordre international de l'après-guerre.

In the chapter entitled 'Globalization and Identity, A Discourse in Russian Orthodoxy,' Agadjanian and Rousselet weave a road map through the sometimes confusing paths the Russian Church is taking regarding its seemingly staunch conservative stand coupled with a public call for negotiations with the West regarding 'secular' globalization. While the Orthodox Church knows that it is impossible to live in the world in complete isolation, this theme of guarded non-acceptance is found throughout the chapters of the book, be they in relation to the church in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Romania, Ukraine, Greece, and even the 'Church in Diaspora' (U.S.A.).