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This report is written by Henrik Boesen Lindbo Larsen and published by DIIS as part of the Defence and Security Studies for the Danish Ministry of Defence. Henrik Boesen Lindbo Larsen, PhD Consultant on Defence and Security Studies at DIIS . Danish Institute for International Studies Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government henrik_larsen@hks.harvard.edu DIIS . Danish Institute for International Studies Østbanegade 117, DK 2100 Copenhagen Tel: +45 32 69 87 87 E-mail: diis@diis.dk Web: www.diis.dk Layout: Lone Ravnkilde og Viki Rachlitz Printed in Denmark by: Bording A/S ISBN 978-87-7605-696-4 (print) ISBN 978-87-7605-695-7 (pdf) DIIS publications can be downloaded free of charge or ordered as hardcopies from www.diis.dk For academic citation: Larsen, H.B.L., 2014. ‘Great Power Politics and the Ukrainian Crisis: NATO, EU and Russia after 2014’, Report 2014:18, Copenhagen: DIIS, Danish Institute for International Studies. © Copenhagen 2014, the author and DIIS
Contents 4 Summary 4 Introduction 6 Ukraine between Russia and the EU 8 6 8 Reactions to Russia’s Crimean Annexation 12 Germany 14 Poland 18 United States 22 France 26 United Kingdom 28 12 Recalibrating Euro-Russian Relations 30 Countering Russia 32 Assisting Ukraine 34 Reinforcing NATO 38 30 Bibliography 40 NATO, EU and Russia after 2014 3
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Page 7 and 8: The Ukrainian crisis that started w
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