Strategic Dimensions of the Russian - Georgian War in August 2008

The Russian - Georgian war, which erupted in August 2008 is an important event in the contemporary history of the Caucasus region due to the diversity and overlapping of factors that led to the outbreak of the armed conflict and the changes brought about by the outcome of this war in the nature of relations among the regional and international parties of this conflict which has got a large part of its spatial and temporal importance since it is in a vital area of the political, economic and security rivalry (after the cold war) between Russia on the one hand and the United States and the West on the other.