Insight Turkey
Insight Turkey
Challenging ideas
On Turkish politics and International affairs

Author

Haluk Doğan

Yalova University
Haluk Doğan
How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy
October 15, 2024
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Mearsheimer reinforced his 2014 assessment of the Russian annexation of Crimea, contending that the West bears significant responsibility for the conflict due to its failure to anticipate Russia’s reaction to Western social engineering in Ukraine and NATO’s eastward expansion. In the new argumentative book, Mearsheimer and Rosato bolster this analysis by arguing that Russia’s decision to invade “was a war of self-defense aimed at preventing an adverse shift in the balance of power,” as it was also “the product of a deliberate process”(p. xii) based on “the consensus among Russian leaders regarding the dangers inherent in Ukraine’s relationship with the West” (p. xiii).

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