Russia, the Near Abroad, and the West Jem Milton Encompassing the lands immediately surrounding

Encompassing the lands immediately surrounding the upper reaches of the Beaver River from its headwaters at Lake Lila to Beaver Lake at the settlement of Number Four

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Milton sees a generative tension between certainties—such as the premise that God exists and is good—and contingencies

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Russia, the Near Abroad, and the West Jem Milton Encompassing the lands immediately surroundingPost communist Russia turned against the West in the 2000s, losing its earlier eagerness to collaborate with western Europe on economic and security matters and adopting a suspicious and defensive posture. This book, investigating a diplomatic negotiation involving Russia and the formerly Soviet Moldova, explains this dramatic shift in Russian foreign policy. William H. Hill, himself a participant in the diplomatic encounter, describes a key episode