Make Russia Great Again: Russia's Politics of International Intervention
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In a globalized world where states’ domestic problems can and will have international consequences, how do governments resolve the tension between state sovereignty and the protection of human rights? In the context of Russia, what factors drive its leaders to use or refuse humanitarian intervention? This thesis analyzes Russia’s conception of international intervention predicated on humanitarian ideals in three parts: first, the Soviet legacy of the Brezhnev Doctrine; second, how the text of Russia’s foreign policy conceptions is formulated to propagate Russia’s role in the world; finally, analysis of two relevant case studies. The first, of Russia’s intervention in Crimea in 2014, finds Russia using its conception of the “Russian world” to justify its unilateral intervention. The second, of Syria, reveals a more complicated case where Russia utilizes its power in the U.N. Security Council to block humanitarian intervention, but at the same time sends its troops to Syria to assist President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. The author’s findings were that Russia uses military intervention ostensibly predicated on humanitarian ideals as a political tool in service of the goal of stability, interpreted as a continued hold on power. Further, when Russia condemns international humanitarian intervention, it preserves for itself power and influence on the world stage—and prevents a precedent of military intervention being established, in order to avoid its application to Russia’s own illegitimate interventions.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Date created | June 7, 2017 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Dalby, Melanie |
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| Primary advisor | Patenaude, Bertrand |
| Advisor | Weiner, Amir |
Subjects
| Subject | Stanford Global Studies |
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| Subject | Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies |
| Subject | Russia |
| Subject | international |
| Subject | humanitarian |
| Subject | intervention |
| Subject | Ukraine |
| Subject | Crimea |
| Subject | Syria |
| Subject | foreign policy |
| Subject | Brezhnev Doctrine |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- Dalby, Melanie. (2017). Make Russia Great Again: Russia's Politics of International Intervention. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/yx679rx8633
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Masters Theses in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
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