POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Realpolitik, Security Dilemma, Defensive Realism
7 Oct 2017
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Another possible way of explaining state behavior is by looking at factors that are located at the state level. For example, russia did what it did in ukraine because of the nature of the. For instance, russian political culture has an expansive understanding of what is russia, a pan-slavic understanding of what is russia, and they always considered ukraine and its people, part of russia. Seeing the possibility that that society, that state, might move away from its russian origins and start to become a new. Western state and a new western society, this is something that has e ected russia"s interests, as they want to prevent this from happening, and if necessary force ukraine to remain with their fatherland, russia. A third possibility is to try to explain state behavior by looking at factors located neither at the individual level nor at the level of the state, but rather at the level of the international system.
