GEOSTRATEGIC POLICIES OF RUSSIA UNDER PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN: SECURITY IMPLICATIONS FOR CRIMEA AND UKRAINE (2012-2023)
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2023-05-18
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Abstract
This thesis focuses on analyzing the geostrategic policies of Russia under the influence of
President Vladimir Putin that he used to make Russia a super power by countering the influence
of West in Post Soviet states. President Vladimir Putin aims to emerge as a supreme leader in the
world. Russian geostrategic policies are being analyzed though John Mearsheimer’s Offensive
realism theory which explains that Russia under the presidency of Vladimir Putin is trying to
ensure its survival by considering the world anarchic where everyone else also struggling to
maximize their interests and power. So, the Russian geostrategic policies also focusing to
maximize its power that mostly influenced by historical experiences, global power dynamics and
regions dynamics especially after the disintegration of Soviet empire. This study will also
contribute to learning about what geographic and geostrategic significance Crimea and Ukraine
hold for Russia. To achieve its goals, Russia has conducted offensive measures such as military
interventions in Crimea in 2014 and in Ukraine in 2022, and wants these two territories to get
under its control completely. In this way, this study adds to the geostrategic field by explaining
Russian realistic interests’ and implications on Ukraine and Crimea. Descriptive approach is used
to analyze the Qualitative data to describe the Russian geostrategic policies by exploring the
different parameters of Russian interests, policies and challenges it faces in implementing them.
And both primary and secondary sources are used for the collection of data to analyze the historical
claims of Russia on Near Abroad states, its struggles for achieving ontological security and
international recognition of a superpower. The study also reveals the challenges that Russia faced
to fulfill its interests realistically. Russia has faced resistance from the World primarily the west
as they support Ukraine. Russia is paying costs of its intervention in Crimea and Ukraine due to
the sanctions imposed by the West that have negatively impacted its economy. Russian
intervention on the other hand, has severe implications on Ukraine and Crimea causing a great
damage to their economy, military, politics and local communities which eventually is making the
whole Eurasian region unstable.