Georgia y Rusia: la identidad como factor delimitador de los intereses y políticas de ambos estados con sus efectos en la Guerra de Osetia del Sur en 2008

Abstract

This monograph is focused in evaluate through a constructivist approach, and from a series of historical events, how the creation of the Russian and Georgian identity trigger the war in South Ossetia in 2008. In order to reach this aim, it will be assumed that this conflict was the result of differences between the two actors who developed a series of conflicting policies, framed in a hobbesian culture of anarchy that was set after the Rose Revolution and the subsequent arrival of Mikheil Saakashvili to power, as Georgia became the main ally of the West in the Caucasus, based on an anti-russian model and a dissident approach of the Kremlin's influence in the area, opposing the russian leadership which is based on an identity grounded in its hegemonic imperial past.