ВИСВІТЛЕННЯ РОСІЙСЬКО-ГРУЗИНСЬКОЇ ВІЙНИ 2008 Р. У ЗАХІДНІЙ ІСТОРІОГРАФІЇ

Abstract

The article provides a historiographic analysis of Western scientific publications on the Russian-Georgian war in August 2008. Given the ongoing Russian aggression in the south and east of Ukraine, the study of this war, its causes and consequences, internal and external incentives is becoming increasingly important. The relevance of the article is to identify the features of the Western view regarding the causes and prerequisites for the war outbreak, which mainly considers this problem from the outside in the context of relations between the Russian Federation and Georgia. The publication provides a comparative analysis of the conclusions of Western researchers regarding the causes and consequences of the war for the Black Sea Region states and the further international situation development. The study confirms that the Russian-Georgian war of August 2008 went beyond the confrontation between the two states, becoming a global factor for the creation of a camp of the participating states of the “new cold war”. After the end of the war, the reaction of Western representatives both in the media and in the scientific community spread widely. Western authors rather widely discussed the Russian-Georgian war of 2008, while avoiding considering the war in the context of the domestic and foreign political situation in Georgia, evaluating it superficially, only taking into account the relationship between the two states. The purpose of the article is to carry out a comparative analysis of the Western researchers statements about the causes, prerequisites and consequences of the “Five-day war” for Georgia, Russia and the world community, to find common and distinctive features in the statements of the researchers of this problem.