RECOMMENDED READINGS
- Allison, Roy. 2014. “Russian ‘Deniable’ Intervention in Ukraine: How and Why Russia Broke the Rules.” International Affairs 90 (6):1255–1297. doi:10.1111/1468-2346.12170.
- Braudel, Fernand. 2012. “History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée.” In Longue Durée and Word-Systems Analysis, edited by Richard Lee and Immanuel Wallerstein, 241–276. New York: State University of New York Press.
- Clark, John. 2019. “Russia’s Indirect Grand Strategy.” Orbis 63 (2):225–239. doi:10.1016/j.orbis.2019.02.002.
- Danilevskii˘, Nikolai. 2013. Russia and Europe. The Slavic World’s Political and Cultural Relations with the Germanic-Roman West. Translated from Russian by S. M. Woodburn. Bloomington: Slavica Publishers.
- Embassy of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 2012. Russia and the Changing World. London: Rusemb.org.uk.
- Fazal, Tanisha. 2022. “The Return of Conquest? Why the Future of Global Order Hinges on Ukraine.” Foreign Affairs, April 6. Accessed June 3, 2022. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2022-04-06/ukraine-russia-war-return-conquest.
- Florea, Corina. 2022. “Putin’s Perilous Imperial Dream. Why Empires and Nativism Don’t Mix.” Foreign Affairs, June 3, 2022. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russian-federation/2022-05-10/putins-perilous-imperial-dream.
- Foy, Henry. 2021. “Vladimir Surkov: ‘An Overdose of Freedom is Lethal to the State’.” The Financial Times. Accessed June 18, 2021. https://www.ft.com/content/1324acbb-f475-47ab-a914-4a96a9d14bac.
- Geertz, Clifford. 1973. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, Inc., publishers.
- Hosking, Geoffrey. 1997. Russia, People and Empire. London: Harper Collins Publishers.
- Karacan, Ali. 2018. Lozan. İstanbul: Turkiye Is Bankasi.
- Koolaee, Elaheh. 2016. “Changes in Russia-US Relations under Medvedev.” International Studies Journal (ISJ) 12 (3) :15–42.
- Krastev, Ivan. 2022. “We Are All Living in Putin’s World Now.” New York Times, February 27. Accessed June 3, 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/27/opinion/putin-russia-ukraine-europe.html.
- Lally, Kathy, and Will Englund. 2011. “Russia, Once Almost a Democracy.” Washington Post, August 12. Accessed March 7, 2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russia-once-almost-a-democracy/2011/08/12/gIQAMriNOJ_story.html.
- Lassin, Joshua, and Elizabeth Channell-Justice. 2022. “Putin’s Antagonism Toward Ukraine was Never Just About NATO – It’s About Creating a New Russian Empire.” The Conversation, June 2. Accessed June 4, 2022. https://theconversation.com/putins-antagonism-toward-ukraine-was-never-just-about-nato-its-about-creating-a-new-russian-empire-177687.
- McFaul, Michael. 2007. “Small Democratic Step.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Accessed August 1, 2021. https://carnegieendowment.org/2007/12/13/small-democratic-step-pub-19786.
- Mead, Walter. 2014. “The Return of Geopolitics: The Revenge of the Revisionist Powers.” Foreign Affairs 93 (3):69–79.
- Mearsheimer, John. 2022. “John Mearsheimer on Why the West is Principally Responsible for the Ukrainian Crisis.” The Economist, March 11. Accessed June 4, 2022. https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/03/11/john-mearsheimer-on-why-the-west-is-principally-responsible-for-the-ukrainian-crisis.
- Melvin, Mungo. 2017. Sevastopol’s Wars: Crimea from Potemkin to Putin. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
- Mendras, Marie. 2015. “The Rising Cost of Russia’s Authoritarian Foreign Policy.” In Russia’s Foreign Policy: Ideas, Domestic Politics and External Relations, edited by Derek Averre and Kataryna Wolczuk, 80–96. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Meray, Sina, and Onur Olcay. 2020. Montrö Boğazlar Konferansı – Tutanaklar, Belgeler. Istanbul: Turkiye Is Bankasi.
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2016. “Sergey Lavrov’s Article "Russia’s Foreign Policy: Historical Background" for "Russia in Global Affairs Magazine.” March 3. https://archive.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/2124391.
- Montefiore, Simon. 2016. The Romanovs, 1613–1918. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
- Morales, Juan. 2009. “Russia’s New National Security Strategy: Towards a ‘Medvedev Doctrine’?” realinstitutoelcano.org. Accessed July 7, 2021. http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_en/contenido?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/elcano/elcano_in/zonas_in/defense+security/ari135-2009.
- Neumann, Iver B., and Karina Wigen. 2018. The Steppe Tradition in International Relations: Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE – 2017 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Presidency of the Russian Federation. 2000. From the Transcript of an Interview with the American NBC News Channel. Moscow. http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/24204.
- Presidency of the Russian Federation. 2012. Vladimir Putin Took Part in the United Russia Party Congress. Moscow. http://www.en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/15445#sel=8:1:Z1l,8:22:yx5;8:45:Llr,8:64:jwj.
- Presidency of the Russian Federation. 2022a. Address by the President of the Russian Federation. Moscow. http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/67843.
- Presidency of the Russian Federation. 2022b. Meeting on Socioeconomic Support for Regions. Moscow. http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/67996.
- Putin, Vladimir. 1999. Russia at the Turn of the Millennium. Pages.uoregon.edu, December 30, 1999. Accessed August 21, 2020. https://pages.uoregon.edu/kimball/Putin.htm.
- Sakwa, Richard. 2015. Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands. London: I.B. Tauris.
- Sakwa, Richard. 2004. Putin. Russia’s Choice. 2nd ed. Oxford: Routledge.
- Shane, Scott. 2004. “Poison’s Use as Political Tool: Ukraine Is Not Exceptional.” The New York Times, December 15. Accessed March 26, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/world/europe/poisons-use-as-political-tool-ukraine-is-not-exceptional.html.
- Shavit, Eran, Zvi Magen, and Shimon Stein. 2022. The Ukraine Crisis: An Interim Analysis. Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, 1–6. Accessed June 3, 2022. https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep39807?seq=1.
- Smith, Mark. 2019. The Russia Anxiety and How History Can Resolve It. London: Allen Lane.
- Tylor, Edward. 1920. Primitive Culture Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom. London: Murray.
- Walt, Stephen. 2022. “Liberal Illusions Caused the Ukraine Crisis.” Foreign Policy, January 19. Accessed June 4, 2022. https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/19/ukraine-russia-nato-crisis-liberal-illusions/.