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a/11702328/Russian-forces-practised-invasion-of-Norway-Finland-Den- Mark-and-Swerian 14. See for example 'Russia Launches Large-Scale Naval Drill in Black Sea Same Day as NATO,' RT, July 4, 2014, 15. Luke Harding 'Georgia Angered by Russia-Abkhazia Military Agreement,' Guardian, November 24 2014, 16. Adri

ble. But would the general decline in military budgets hold? Would the new national boundaries that divided the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia be sustainable? As modern authoritarianism has taken root and ex- panded its influence, the answers to these questions are increasingly negative.

his forces are running rampant through the country's industrial heartland. Instead the great prize may be the southwest, an area that includes the Black Sea port of Odessa and gives him a boundary not only with the pro-Russian breakaway Transnistrian statelet, but with NATO and the EU itself. To fan the

engage from Europe three times since the end of the Cold War, and each time the disengagement failed. The Clinton administration tried to outsource Yugoslavia to the Europeans in the 1990s and was ultimately pulled into the Balkans. George W. Bush tried to conduct foreign policy around and over the heads

rable. But would the general decline in military budgets hold? Would the new national boundaries that divided the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia be sustainable? As modern authoritarianism has taken root and ex- panded its influence, the answers to these questions are increasingly negative. 1

in which 33,000 troops rehearsed the invasion of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark.!? The Russian navy has held multiple, large-scale exercises in the Black Sea to defy NATO, assert its control over Crimea, and threaten Georgia.'* Russian and Abkhaz separatist officials have announced what amounts to a merger

02328/Russian-forces-practised-invasion-of-Norway-Finland-Den- mark-and-Sweden.html. 14. See for example “Russia Launches Large-Scale Naval Drill in Black Sea Same Day as NATO,” RT, July 4, 2014, https://www.rt.com/news/170540-black-sea-russia-drill/. 15. Luke Harding, “Georgia Angered by Russia-Abkhazia M