Russia’s Power Politics in Ukraine and Syria: Status-seeking between Identity, Opportunity and Costs

Maria Raquel Freire and Regina Heller

Europe-Asia Studies, 2018, vol. 70, issue 8, 1185-1212

Abstract: This article looks at Russia’s exercise of power politics in Ukraine and Syria as a way of improving its international status. Russia’s recent willingness to use power and coercion is theoretically counterintuitive as it appears to be in dissonance with the prevalent characterisation of the country as a status-overachieving inconsistent power. We argue that this behaviour is not the result of a consistent weighing of status against capabilities, but rather reflective of both internal and external dynamics. We analyse issues of identity, opportunity and costs as factors that influence Russian foreign action, showing that power politics will not solve Russia’s status-inconsistency problem in the long run.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2018.1521914

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