Russia's Foreign Policy from the Crimean Crisis to the Middle East: Great Power Gamble or Biopolitics?
Journal: Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
Year: 2017

The Crimea Crisis of 2014 and the subsequent conflict in Eastern Ukraine have brought to the fore the troubled relations between Putin’s Russia and the West. Observers have been oscillating between disbelief and alarm, trying to figure out Russia’s conduct in foreign affairs by referring to imperialism, a new Cold War, or to an inherently autocratic character of Russia to explain its foreign policy. The 2015 Russian intervention in Syria has further buttressed these interpretations. Instead, thi