War or Peace for Finland? Neoclassical Realist Case Study of Finnish Foreign Policy in the Context of the Anti-Bolshevik Intervention in Russia 1918 – 1920
Journal: Trepo - Institutional Repository of Tampere University
Year: 2013

This thesis studies Finnish foreign policy decision making between the years 1918 - 1920 in the context of the Allied and Associated Powers intervention in the Russian Civil War. The selected case study is analyzed through two theoretical frameworks: John Herz's idealist-realist distinction of political thought and Randall L. Schweller's balance-of-interest theory. The former is used to analyze the interplay of power and ideology in international politics; the latter to study statesmen perceptio