CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Churchouse, Ben Arthur Ericksen |
|---|---|
| Title | ANALYSING THE PROSPECTS OF VLADIMIR PUTIN'S 'GRAND PROJECT' IN LIGHT OF THE 2014 CRIMEAN ANNEXATION |
| Summary | Abstract In late February 2014, Russian military forces invaded Ukrainian sovereign territory in Crimea and subsequently annexed it into the Russian Federation. A large selection of international reactions suggested that this was a part of a concerted plan by Vladimir Putin to challenge global order through a revisionist ‘return to history’. However, a series of policy concessions made by Putin soon after, suggested that this may not necessarily be the case. This thesis proposes that by considering whether or not Putin possesses a 'grand political motivation' to challenge world order and a coherent motivational ideology to support it, it is possible to present a different image of what is happening in Crimea. This research will explore this problem by analysing responses to Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea from a variety of policy-makers, analysts and media. I propose that Putin's foreign policy and subsequent actions can be viewed as the need to maintain the domestic Russian condition of bespredel by preserving, rather than challenging the current international order. Putin’s actions in Crimea are therefore fundamentally orientated at protecting and managing the current Russian spatial order from what Moscow considers to be external revolutionary threats to its constitution. |
| Supervisor | Astrov, Alexander |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/churchouse_ben.pdf |
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