[aaus-list] FW: November issue of "Origins" - Clash in the Caucasus (fwd)

[M T Znayenko]

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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:28:18 -0400
From: Kevin Eric Laney <kel1 at columbia.edu>
To: harriman-news at columbia.edu
Subject: FW: November issue of "Origins" - Clash in the Caucasus

I was wondering if you could post an announcement to your community and on
your website about a recent article written by Stephen F. Jones, "Clash in
the Caucasus: Georgia, Russia, and the Fate of South Ossetia," published in
Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective.



Origins is a free, non-commercial publication from the Public History
Initiative and eHistory in Ohio State University's History Department. Each
month, an academic expert analyzes a particular current issue - political,
cultural, or social - in a larger, deeper historical context. In addition to
the analysis provided in each month's feature, Origins also includes
podcasts, images, maps, graphics, timelines, and other material to
complement the article. Origins can be found at
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/ [the podcast is found at
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/podcasts.cfm]



In this month's article, Stephen F. Jones, one of the world's foremost
specialists on Georgia, explores the origins of this summer's fighting. The
brief war in Georgia in August 2008 has ushered in a new era in
international relations-although likely not the "new cold war" that so many
analysts have rushed to declare. The war's main protagonists-Georgians,
Ossetians, Abkhaz, and Russians-have had a long and tangled history, made
worse by the swirling nationalism that accompanied the break-up of the
Soviet Union, the promise of free-flowing petrodollars, Russia's
international resurgence, and the United States' recent, active involvement
in the region.



Previous issues of Origins focused on the Russian presidential election,
fishing and over-fishing in American waters, Olympic controversies, the
mortgage crisis, and the 2008 Taiwan elections.



Thank you.



Glenn Kranking



Marketing Editor
Origins Magazine
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins