Essays about: "Moscow"

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  1. 6. The Katechon and Moscow as Third Rome : Visual analysis of Russia's religious soft power in Greece

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Laura Pennisi; [2021]
    Keywords : Russia; Greece; ROC; soft power; religion; Orthodox businessmen; multimodality; visual grammar;

    Abstract : The symphonic relationship between the Russian state and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), a mission conceived as entrusted by God to coordinate their contributions to the society, provides the Russian state with a moral framework and the ROC with the possibility to confirm her spiritual role for the establishment of a Russian Orthodox world. This vision of a new Russian world helps the ROC expand her canonical borders to amend for the fragmentation of the pastoral community after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. READ MORE

  3. 7. Understanding Military Implications of Nuclear Weapons : A Frame Analysis of U.S. and Russian Nuclear Policy Discourses 2017-2020

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Larisa Saveleva; [2021]
    Keywords : nuclear weapons; nuclear policy discourse; the United States; Russia; framing theory; nuclear realism;

    Abstract : The paper discusses how strategic nuclear capabilities possessed by the world’s largest nuclear powers, the United States and Russia, affect how their state leadership makes sense of the role of military force in international politics. Using the theoretical framework of the theory of nuclear revolution (Jervis 1989) and nuclear realism (van Munster & Sylvest 2016), the author parses the ways in which the role of military force is framed in U. READ MORE

  4. 8. Lesser Evil : A case evaluation on operational level

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Cornils Fabian; [2021]
    Keywords : Lesser Evil; Humanitarian Necessity; Gabriella Blum; International Humanitarian Law;

    Abstract : In war military necessity to some extent justifies breaches to some international humanitarian law rules. However, there is no justifiable causes for breaching rules with the objective to reduce humanitarian suffering. READ MORE

  5. 9. Exploring Constraints to Russia’s Foreign Policy in the Baltics and the South Caucasus

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Markar Sangkogian; [2021]
    Keywords : constraints; Russia; foreign policy; Baltic; South Caucasus; neoclassical realism; foreign policy analysis;

    Abstract : The thesis is an explorative study of the notion of constraints to Russia’s foreign policy. The explorative attempt investigates Moscow’s external behaviour vis a vis the states of the Baltics and the South Caucasus from 2013 to 2020. READ MORE

  6. 10. Don't poke the sleeping Bear : Russia's nuclear programme under Putin

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media; Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier

    Author : Pia Brinkschulte; [2021]
    Keywords : nuclear weapons programme; Russia; New START; modernization; escalate to de-escalate; Putin; realism; constructivism;

    Abstract : In recent years, Russia’s nuclear weapons program has been widely discussed among policymakers, think-tank analysts, and academics. Some argue that Russia pursues an increasingly assertive weapons policy and has lowered its threshold of using them in conflict. READ MORE