Aug 12, 2008 (Talk of the Nation) — Over the past five days, there's been fighting and talk of a ceasefire, but what could the conflict between Russia and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia mean for the European Union and the United States?
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Georgia and Russia: What's At Stake?
Aug 12, 2008 (Talk of the Nation) — Over the past five days, there's been fighting and talk of a ceasefire, but what could the conflict between Russia and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia mean for the European Union and the United States?Over the past five days, there's been fighting and talk of a ceasefire, but what could the conflict between Russia and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia mean for the European Union and the United States?
Guests:
James Traub, contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine
Charles King, chairman of Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and author of The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus
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