Thucydides’ Three Security Dilemmas in Post-Soviet StrifeFootnote1

1. Earlier drafts of this article were presented at the sixth annual conference of the Central Eurasia Studies Society (CESS), Boston University, 29–30 September 2005, and at the Thucydides workshop organized by Jon Elster (Columbia University, NY, 25–26 February 2005). Comments by Stephen Holmes, Richard Ned Lebow, Eric Robinson, Bruce Russett and other participants, as well as the two anonymous referees for the Journal of Military Ethics, were helpful in revising the drafts.

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