Presidential Power in Putin’s Third Term: Was Crimea a Critical Juncture in Domestic Politics?
Journal: Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Year: 2017

Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 marked a watershed in international law and politics.It caused, as the political scientist Richard Sakwa puts it, "the most dangerous confrontation since the end of the Cold War, if not since the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962." 1 At the time, even seasoned analysts were unsure what this watershed might entail.Writing shortly afterwards, the political scientist Andrew Wilson struggled over whether it meant an "immediate end to the post-Cold War o