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COLORED REVOLUTIONS, NATO’S EXPANSIONISM AND RUSSIAN STRATEGIC CONCERNS
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Author(s):
VIJAY PRATAP GAURAV
Vol - 6, Issue- 2 ,
Page(s) : 20 - 22
(2016 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/RJSET
Abstract
The collapse of the Soviet Union opened way for new interventions by the United States (US) in the affairs of its erstwhile Republics in a bid to establish control in the region and countervail the Russian advantage in the region. In the changed global setting when the hostilities of the Cold War era were largely expected to end, the mode of intervention also had to be reoriented. The strategy of the US seems to have been two-pronged. On the one hand its time-tested strategy of incorporating friendly regimes into military alliances was continued by expanding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and including members from the region. On the other hand a new strategy of engineering anarchy in the CIS (Former Soviet Republics) as well as Balkan States and then through a network of NGOs and INGOs propping up regimes favorably disposed to the USA was also adopted. Both these measures met with considerable success in the objective of encircling and countervailing the Russian influence in the region.
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