Which factors drive Russia’s grand strategy adjustment: pressure, perception, power
Journal: DSpace repository (University of Tartu)
Year: 2020

Relations between Russia and the West, mainly the US, EU and NATO, have continuously&#13;\ndeteriorated in the past decades due to several crises and differing answers to these by the&#13;\nrelevant players, e.g. in the cases of Ukraine and Syria. Whereas there are numerous works&#13;\nwhich deal with the phenomena of Russian foreign policy conduct in those crises from a realist&#13;\npoint of view, there are remarkably few that take a neoclassical realist perspective. This paper&#13;\ndoes, loo