POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Transit Center At Manas, President Of Kyrgyzstan

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John mearsheimer is one of the most consistent and persuasive theorists in the realist school of international relations, but his explanation of the crisis in ukraine demonstrates the limits of realpolitik realism. According to mearsheimer, russia has annexed crimea and intervened in eastern. Ukraine in response to nato expansion, which he calls "the taproot of the trouble. " Mearsheimer"s essay fail to explain why russia kept its troops out of ukraine for the decade-plus between nato"s expansion, which began in 1999. Even more difficult for mearsheimer to explain is the so-called reset of u. s. -russian relations, an era of cooperation that lasted from the spring of 2009 to january 2012 (ex: Russia has pursued both cooperation and confrontation with the united states since this century began. Mearsheimer"s single variable of nato expansion can"t explain both outcomes. Although realists prefer to focus on the state as the unit of analysis, for his explanation of the.

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