Crimea as a Eurasian pivot in ‘Arc of Conflict’: managing the great power relations trilemma
Journal: Manchester University Press eBooks
Year: 2015

Abstract This chapter investigates the potential for the new disorder in the context of a specific geographical locus: Crimea. It is in this historical pivot-point that relations between great powers will be most significantly tested, and here that one finds political, economic and security quandaries that are best conceptualised in terms of a ‘trilemma’. This occurs in terms of competing themes of democracy, self-determination and economic globalisation. The argument here is that managing each