Russian geopolitical narratives from “geopolitics 101” to postmodern revisionism: <i>Implications for the Baltic-Pontic Region</i>
Journal: Global Affairs
Year: 2018

Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian Crimea in 2014 and its covert aggression in the country’s eastern regions gave it tremendous preponderance in the Black Sea region as Ukrainian Naval Forces, headquartered before the crisis in Sevastopol, left the peninsular base. Its growing brinkmanship in the Baltic airspace and waters, just as the policy of multi-layered revisionism (historical, ethno-political, international-legal) pursued in the region, spurred fears among three Baltic states and their neig