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TY - CHAP
T1 - The EU's Changing Strategy towards Russia
T2 - The Response to Aggression
AU - Maass, Anna-Sophie
PY - 2025/5/27
Y1 - 2025/5/27
N2 - This chapter examines changes in the EU’s foreign policy towards Russiaby assessing their gradually increasing contentions over Ukraine in twophases: First, from the annexation of Crimea in March 2014 until November2018 when Russia was shelling Ukrainian vessels in the Kerch Strait. Second,since this incident in the Sea of Azov until February 2024. The chapterconsiders Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, the shelling of Ukrainianvessels in the Sea of Azov in 2018, and the full-scale invasion of Ukrainein February 2022 as critical junctures, demonstrating Russia’s increasingthreat towards Ukraine and shaping the EU’s changing policy paradigmtowards Moscow since 2014. In line with this book’s main objective, thechapter examines paradigmatic and strategic shifts in the EU’s policy goalsand instruments (Hall, 1993) since 2014 in the context of power transition,Russian aggression and the spread of anti-Liberal ideas
AB - This chapter examines changes in the EU’s foreign policy towards Russiaby assessing their gradually increasing contentions over Ukraine in twophases: First, from the annexation of Crimea in March 2014 until November2018 when Russia was shelling Ukrainian vessels in the Kerch Strait. Second,since this incident in the Sea of Azov until February 2024. The chapterconsiders Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, the shelling of Ukrainianvessels in the Sea of Azov in 2018, and the full-scale invasion of Ukrainein February 2022 as critical junctures, demonstrating Russia’s increasingthreat towards Ukraine and shaping the EU’s changing policy paradigmtowards Moscow since 2014. In line with this book’s main objective, thechapter examines paradigmatic and strategic shifts in the EU’s policy goalsand instruments (Hall, 1993) since 2014 in the context of power transition,Russian aggression and the spread of anti-Liberal ideas
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781529243611
SP - 168
EP - 188
BT - Europe's World
A2 - Jorgensen, Knud-Erik
A2 - Knudsen, Tonny Brems
A2 - Landorff, Laura
PB - Bristol University Press
CY - Bristol
ER -