This paper will be formatted in a way that starts with a brief background of the situation and details of what is currently happening, to explaining why this crisis escalated by examining the Western foreign policy from a neoliberalism point of view, and examining Russia's foreign policy through a realist point of view. ... A main principal of neoliberalism relies on the decreasing usefulness of military power for the main idea is that military power does not lead to creating international peace13. ... The foreign policy of the west acknowledged this action from Russia and began working t...

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From 1948 onwards, a more or less clear-cut line divided Europe into two main political and military blocs: the communist bloc and the free world of Western Europe, resulting in an almost perfect bipolarity. ... And from 1945 onwards, another great power, the United States, took up a permanent political and military residence in the region. ... the Cold War era The Cold War system of international relations was a geopolitical intermixing of security, ideology and the balance of power, especially military power. ...

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Tsar Alexander I, an intelligent, handsome, benevolent and aspiring leader, ascended to the Russian throne in 1801 to become one of Russia's greatest reformers and military leaders. The Tsar who defeated the French Empire was profoundly influenced by their domestic and foreign affairs, leading his vision of Russia to enhance and protect the revolutionary ideals of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. ... Catherine's visions for Alexander led him to show his power as a reformist and in foreign policy, hoping to better the nation. ... At the Congress of Erfurt in 1808, Sperans...

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A conflict between USSR and the USA which was the very beginning of the Cold War was not only a military one but rather ideological contest between the systems: communism and capitalism. ... Moreover there was a guarantee from US side that NATO will not expand any further than Germany and that was the thing on which Gorbachev based his foreign policy. ... Valid arguments can be made against NATO enlargement, but this particular argument is spurious.7 To sum up this part of essay, NATO is a key part of American military domination in Europe. By surrounding Russia with military bases NATO signi...

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Expansion of military conflict was accompanied by the growth of military orders, which, in turn, created favorable conditions for the accelerated development of the industry. ... The new "super weapon", as demonstrated by the Americans, was to show the world that the US is a leader in the military sphere. It was with these weapons the US administration has decided to pursue a policy of defending its national interests in the world, "the US military said this quite openly. ... At the end of the war power of the Soviet Union it was based not in the economic area (where US leadership was undeniab...

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Russia was in the midst of a civil war between the Bolsheviks and a number of opponents (including a considerable number of foreign cadres--among them British, Czech, French, and American detachments). ... During the summer of 1918, Stalin's operations came under military attack by Cossacks and anti-Bolshevik forces from both the Caucasus and the Donets basin. Stalin appointed his own military commander (Voroshilov), who successfully defended the city. ... Stalin preferred to conduct the overall military operations in the lower Volga region himself, much to the chagrin of Leon Trotsky, ...

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ROLES OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST AND JAPAN IN PROMOTING ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN THE NORTHEAST ASIA The relation between the Russian Far East and Japan is 'near and far'. In the Cold War period there existed an 'invisible wall' in the Sea of Japan. The Cold War ended about 10 years ago. Although a tense atmosphere remains in the Korean Peninsula, people's comings and goings and cultural exchange between Japan and Russia have remarkably increased since then. In this sense the 'invisible wall' has collapsed. ...

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However, market demand is still very big and with methods of doing business becoming more "western-style" Russia makes more and more foreign businessmen turn their look towards expansion into their market. ... The suicide bomber drove up to the Russian military hospital in a truck filled with explosives. The bomber was able to go through the gates of the military hospital then detonated the explosives at about 7 p.m. (1500 GMT), on August 3, 2003. ... By November 6, 2003 Confidence in Russian markets had dropped with share prices reflecting this, at a time when the Russian government has bee...

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Russia was one of the hardest hit by the 2008-09 global economic crisis as oil prices plummeted and the foreign credits that Russian banks and firms relied on dried up. Slowly declining oil prices over the past few years and the difficulty attracting foreign direct investment have contributed to a noticeable slowdown in GDP growth rates. In late 2013, the Russian Economic Development Ministry reduced its growth forecast through 2030 to an average of only 2.5% per year, down from its previous forecast of 4.0 to 4.2%. in 2014, following Russia's military intervention in Ukraine, prospects ...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. Instead, the young Stalin bec...

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According to John Mearsheimer, great powers seek to expand their economic and military power when the benefit outweighs the cost. ... The emotional relationship between Russia and Crimea affected how people perceive foreign policy. ...

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The government was indeed aware of the classes being developed in the urban centers and grew weary but still the thought of destroying this foreign investment that fed them was indeed feared. ... They were being treated inhumanely by the backward military that was controlled by Tsar and it so happened that the military sought out to seek better living conditions as well as dignity, considering what the emperor forces them to do for him. ...

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Tatarstan, for example, strives to sell its oil at world market prices in foreign markets to generate income, and in 1993-94, the local governments in Tatarstan and Yakutia sought economic decentralization in Russia by refusing to pay federal taxes. ... Paternalism, clientelism, and military intervention prevailed over legal methods and legal institutions. ...

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The focus of the literature on EU-Turkey relations is still concentrate by and large on other issues such as religion, Cyprus issue, military's involvement into politics and human rights concerns but not energy. ... In terms of the energy resources surrounding Turkey, there are many scholarly written accounts which give as crude facts such as Yergin and Kandiyoti However, there are many biased and politically motivated publications on energy issues as it can be used as a foreign policy tool such as Aliyev and Pinder. ...

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History Coursework 2, Question 1. In 1928, the newly empowered Stalin embarked on one of the most ambitious industrialisation programs in world history, leading to the establishment of the U.S.S.R as a pinnacle world superpower in less than half a century. Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. The Soviet economy had made advances under Lenin's semi-capitalist N.E.P with its slight capitalist elements, but Stalin's five-year plans were far more ambitious and so far riskier. Did the Soviet Union need to industrialise so ...

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