Elias Götz is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Uppsala Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS), Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published on Russian foreign policy in International Studies Review, Global Affairs, and Contemporary Politics.

• 1. Russia, the West, and the Ukraine crisis: three contending perspectives 2. Why Putin went to war: ideology, interests and decision-making in the Russian use of force in Crimea and Donbas 3. Russia and ‘hybrid warfare’ 4. Neorealism and Russia’s Ukraine policy, 1991–present 5. Russian strategic culture: the role of today’s chekisty 6. Kto Vinovat? Why is there a crisis in Russia’s relations with the West? 7. Russia’s relations with the West: ontological security through conflict 8. From logic of competition to conflict: understanding the dynamics of EU–Russia relations

Elias Götz is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Uppsala Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS), Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published on Russian foreign policy in International Studies Review, Global Affairs, and Contemporary Politics.

• 1. Russia, the West, and the Ukraine crisis: three contending perspectives 2. Why Putin went to war: ideology, interests and decision-making in the Russian use of force in Crimea and Donbas 3. Russia and ‘hybrid warfare’ 4. Neorealism and Russia’s Ukraine policy, 1991–present 5. Russian strategic culture: the role of today’s chekisty 6. Kto Vinovat? Why is there a crisis in Russia’s relations with the West? 7. Russia’s relations with the West: ontological security through conflict 8. From logic of competition to conflict: understanding the dynamics of EU–Russia relations

Elias Götz is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Uppsala Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS), Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published on Russian foreign policy in International Studies Review, Global Affairs, and Contemporary Politics.

• 1. Russia, the West, and the Ukraine crisis: three contending perspectives 2. Why Putin went to war: ideology, interests and decision-making in the Russian use of force in Crimea and Donbas 3. Russia and ‘hybrid warfare’ 4. Neorealism and Russia’s Ukraine policy, 1991–present 5. Russian strategic culture: the role of today’s chekisty 6. Kto Vinovat? Why is there a crisis in Russia’s relations with the West? 7. Russia’s relations with the West: ontological security through conflict 8. From logic of competition to conflict: understanding the dynamics of EU–Russia relations