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Article: Georgia and Russia can avoid war - if the West helps.(OPINION)(Viewpoint essay)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 27, 2008
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Byline: Kenneth Yalowitz and William Courtney
Hanover, N.H.; and Washington -- Russia may be provoking a war with Georgia in a territorial dispute over Abkhazia.
Some say Moscow's provocations are merely an effort to prevent Georgia from joining NATO, which it was promised at the alliance's summit in Bucharest this April.
But a war between these two countries would threaten security in the volatile Caucasus and eastern Black Sea region and the booming exports of Caspian energy through Georgia, adding pressure to already sky-high oil prices throughout the world. It would also endanger US and NATO security interests in an area not far removed from ...