Transitional times. Russian agency and international intervention
Journal: Leiden Repository (Leiden University)
Year: 2015

Since the Russian annexation of Crimea in March 2014 and the ongoing Ukraine conflict, speculation has been rife about the likely direction of Russia’s foreign policy and its relations with the West. Relatively little analysis has so far situated Russia’s actions in a wider context of debate about international intervention and post-modern values. This article seeks to achieve this. Relying on insights from Foreign Policy Analysis in relation to agency-structure debates, it argues that Russia’s