Crippling Leviathan by Melissa M. Lee

Author:Melissa M. Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-12-24T00:00:00+00:00

The Politics of Subversion

Although this survey of the remaining countries in the post-Soviet space has been necessarily brief, it is still valuable for learning about the politics of subversion. The commonalities between the cases allow me to examine one case from each cell of table 4.2, excluding the southwest cell where motive and means are both absent, and assume that the remaining cases that take on similar values follow the same logic as the exemplar case. Indeed, in cases like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, where the policy distance with Moscow was small and Moscow therefore lacked motivation to subvert, I observe a situation like that of Ukraine in the 1990s: no political interference in territorial state authority. In cases such as Latvia and Lithuania, where foreign policy divergence provided motivation but where the means of subversion were unavailable, subversion did not occur, just as we saw in Estonia after 1994. Finally, in cases where the policy distance was large and where agents were available, such as Moldova after 2004, the outcome mirrors that of Georgia after 1999, where Russia wielded subversion to considerable harmful effect. The evidence across the post-Soviet space thus supports my arguments about the importance of motive and means for the use of subversion.

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