Extended Commentary: Action or Inaction? an Analysis of President Obama's Foreign Policy
Journal: International social science review
Year: 2016

Action or Inaction? An Analysis of President Obama's Foreign Policy The date is November 2016. A little over two and a half years ago, militants in Crimea took over major governmental buildings in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine as a result of a revolution that ousted Pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych from power. (1) This provided an excuse for Vladimir Putin to seize lands traditionally owned by Russia. Crimea was annexed via referendum in March of 2014, (2) and the rest of Ukraine w