Analysis of the Crisis Management Practices of the Russian Federation in relation to Ukraine

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Mohsen Habibi ¹ , Ahmad Bakhshayeshi Ardestani ² , Seyyed Ali Tabatabaei Panah ³

1 - Islamic Azad university of Tehran Markaz Student in International relation
2 - Professor, Faculty of Political Science, Tehran Central Branch, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Science, Tehran Central Branch, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2018-05-17 Accepted : 2019-06-18 Published : 2019-06-22

Keywords: crisis management, Single Line Model, Single-Multi-Polar Model, Hardware Levers, Software Levers,

Abstract :

Relations with Ukraine in Russian foreign policy became, not only geopolitically and geo-strategically, important after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia's relations with Ukraine as a neighbor country in the region have embraced a painful separation and reflects the complex process of mutual identification in both countries. Hence, the Ukrainian crisis has always been responded to by Russian hardware power, the latest of which was the crisis in the Kerch Strait and the Sea of Azov, which has faced Russia's strict response to the Poroshenko’s sabotages. The present article seeks to answer the question of how Russia has managed the Ukrainian crisis and what techniques and tools have been used? The answer to this question is that the logic of the Russian approach to managing international crises suggests that, because of the importance of Ukraine for this country, Russia has managed the crisis in Ukraine in the form of crisis management models based on asymmetric, single line and single-multi-polar balance of powers, using hardware and software levers. The research methodology is based on a descriptive-analytical strategy.