RUSSIAN IRREDENTISM: BALTIC STATES NEXT? MENACE-MYTH-MANTRA
Journal: Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School)
Year: 2020

The gulf between the West and Russia has widened again since the annexation of Crimea, leading to worries that Moscow will use Crimea as a blueprint for the Baltics. This thesis argues that Russia does not, in fact, view both regions equally. When scholars report Vladimir Putin uses tools of the past for today, they prove how Russia’s democratization failed. But the discourse on Russia’s strategy abroad underrates how this path affects Moscow’s foreign policy. This thesis explains how Moscow pro