Invasionen av Krim - ett sårbarhetsfönster : en teorikonsumerande fallstudie över Rysslands beslut att invadera Krim
Journal: KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Year: 2019

After a period of political unrest in Ukraine in late 2013 and the beginning of 2014, the so called Euromaidan movement, Russia decided to invade and late annex the Crimea. The act changed the conception of both European and world security and has opened up for scholarly debate on why Russia chose to make this move. The purpose of this study is to bring a new perspective on the underlying reasons behind the invasion with the help of Van Evera’s window theory. The theory’s hypothesis states that