This article tests the plausibility of an affect-centered framework for foreign policy analysis, using 2014 annexation Crimea as illustrative case. It identifies questions left open by prevailing accounts based on international relations theory and shows how a supplementary conceptual lens can improve existing explanations. The affective perspective suggests that Russian president deemed interv...

The article reveals the influence and foreign policy role of Russia before second partition Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, shows expansionist plans to reject Right-Bank Ukraine. Some aspects state ideology as a fundamental theoretical basis political strategy modern are analyzed. development Ukrainian territories in conditions prevailing Russian factors their absorption by empire is studied Ke...

This article analyses how Sweden has adapted to the worsened security situation in its vicinity following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and war Eastern Ukraine. The paper builds on policy research focused neoclassic realism small state strategies order explore the, broadly unknown, from 2009 been implemented practice since 2014, through what observers call “Hultqvist doctrine.” aim is b...

An important aspect of mechanism design in social choice protocols and multiagent systems is to discourage insincere and manipulative behaviour. We examine the computational complexity of false-name manipulation in weighted voting games which are an important class of coalitional voting games. Weighted voting games have received increased interest in the multiagent community due to their compac...

Western allies have imposed restrictive measures on Russian banks and threatened harsher sanctions the finance sector since annexation of Crimea in 2014. However, this did not impede sanctioned reporting record profits, nor deter Russia from invading Ukraine 24 February 2022. Although sanctions’ full effectiveness remains question, impact Russia's invasion has only caused a retreat foreign main...