A DANGEROUS WORLD: STEPHEN HARPER’S POST-MAIDAN UKRAINE POLICY
Year: 2018

The thesis puts forward a neoclassical realist theory of the Harper government’s response to the Ukrainian crisis, which draws upon a number of theories, including Power Transition theory, to examine the determinative role played by variables at the system-, unit-, and individual-levels of analysis. The Ukrainian crisis was enmeshed in a broader struggle between state actors with different and competing visions of world order – highlighting the importance of system-level incentives and constrain