Conclusion: Foreign Policy as the Continuation of Domestic Politics by Other Means
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Year: 2015

Analysts and policymakers alike were largely caught by surprise, if not by the Ukraine crisis itself, then at least by its form and magnitude. The crisis was influenced by various causal factors (both internal and external to Ukraine) and went through different phases (political, economic, military), but by many accounts it was Moscow's decision to annex Crimea that appears in retrospect to have been the most crucial development. The active use of political, economic and even military levers by