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The Ukraine crisis has emerged from a domestic conflict and developed into an international issue because of the Russian federation intervention. The evolution of the Ukrainian crisis demonstrated the inability of the international community to handle it in a timely manner and prevent conflict escalation and ultimate stalemate. Although Ukrainian separatists seek to follow the Crimean strategy, many Western countries are strongly opposing to the Russian annexation of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts due to concerns of aggressive geostrategic objectives. U.S. and the European Union are still struggling to implement coordination and cooperation tactics to deal with the conflict. In addition, Russia’s position also contributed to the complexity of the situation because of its hasty decisions as the conflict evolved.

In 2014, Russia captured the Crimea and Sevastopol, and unfurled tens of thousands of troops near Ukraine border. This is where the conflict flashed between pro-Russian separatists and the new government in Kiev. Russia's actions, including reported military aid for separatist troops, mark a serious major threat to generally accepted principles of world order, such as, sovereignty and

The foreign policies of Russia also compliments in many ways its domestic policies, both in the apparent want for dominance and security in the focal point on sovereignty. These aims lead to an importance on bringing back Russia’s international status and removing positions of power that Western states have had in Russia

Russia has built a strong, but stagnating economy on several natural resources to include the refinery and export of natural gas and oil. According to the Jim Picht (2014) exportation of natural gas and oil to Eastern Europe account for 70 percent of Russia’s exports and 53 percent of the government’s revenue. Along with exporting oil to Eastern Europe, Russia also exports too many countries to include China and Belarus. Europe fueled majority by Russian supplied natural gas and oil, the dependency of Europe’s need for this natural resource is the reason Russia’s economy is so strong. In 2014, when Russia decided to invade the neighboring country of Ukraine has led Europe to begin searching for other suppliers of their natural resources. If Europe finds other countries to supply the natural resources

The two countries, Russia and Ukraine, had different reactions towards the armed violence and impeachment of the Ukrainian president. Although the majority of the Ukrainians opposed Viktor’s decision to procrastinate the signing the EU-Ukraine integration agreement, all the ex-presidents accused for its interference with the affairs of Crimean. The former presidents of Ukraine, including Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma described the present crisis as Russia’s political interventions designed to interfere with the internal affairs of Ukraine and its relationship with the European Union (Hanschke 1). The people of Crimea have not been seeking for secession from Ukraine, but their interest is to have extended autonomy and rights to govern the Crimean affairs with minimum involvement of the government of Ukraine. Russia, on the other hand, have dismissed the accusation and stated that it is pursuing the interest of the people of Crimea to join the Federation of Russia. Russia holds that the people of Crimea have the power to decide the future of their territory and Russia will be ready to respect their decision. Study shows that about 90

After collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was one of the left over countries that

Secondly, NATO enlargement was not necessarily Russia’s containment by the United States. Some experts indicate that there was no consensus on the issue in American political landscape. At the same time, many countries in East Europe, especially the Baltic ones, expressed their willingness to enter the EU and NATO because they feared imperialistic comeback of Russia. Though this “the chicken or the egg” argument (Russia behaves aggressively because of NATO enlargement, or NATO expanded to prevent Russia from striking back) still corresponds with realist logic of insecurity, it largely disapproves that the Ukraine crisis is great powers clash.

This article starts by introducing the historical path of Crimea, then analyzes the impact of Ukraine revolution on Russia, and further illustrates the influence of Crimea Crisis on the relationship between Russia and the Western World. The study ends with policy suggestions for the United States and the West.

With the current civil war in Ukraine unfolding and Russian involvement being well known, the average person would consider this a very simple situation of Russia flexing its might. While there is some truth for Russian involvement being exactly that, the reasoning for Russia’s foreign policy is a much more complex situation that cannot be summarized into one definitive reason. In fact, there are a variety of factors that could be categorized into three groups known as the three levels of analysis, International, Domestic, and Individual.

While the Crimean question remained subdued for a long time, in September 2008 it was brought back into the forefront of global politics when the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko accused Russia of giving out Russian passports to the population in the Crimea and described it as a "real problem" given Russia's declared policy of military intervention abroad to protect Russian citizens.

The conflict between the Ukraine and Russia is the Ukraine's most long-standing and deadly crisis; since its post-Soviet independence began as a protest against the government dropping plans to forge closer trade ties with the European Union. The conflict between Russia and the Ukraine stems from more than twenty years of weak governance, the government’s inability to promote a coherent executive branch policy, an economy dominated by oligarchs and rife with corruption, heavy reliance on Russia, and distinct differences between Ukraine's population from both Eastern and Western regions in terms of linguistics, religion and ethnicity (Lucas 2009).

On top of the Russian economic issues, Putin felt Ukraine’s departure from Russian support was a major strike to the Russian national pride. Russia felt a kinship with Ukraine based on the close history these countries share. The relationship between Russia and Ukraine deteriorated because of Ukrainian efforts to embrace Western ideals and

Russia has committed to seizing as much control over Ukraine as possible. To increase his approval ratings at times of economic recession, most especially in 2014, Putin has capitalized on the foundation of Russian nationalism he has shaped in his state. Because Ukraine, and many other independent sovereign states, are still claimed by Putin and many Russians as rightful territories of the homeland, exerting power over Ukraine is a reliable source of public domestic approval. In addition to the boon of distraction from economic hardships and corruption that comes from bullying Ukraine, Putin also has a geographically significant peninsula to motivate him to take further action. With the possibilities of Ukraine joining NATO and growing

Ukraine, after witnessing the annexation of its Western segment, Crimea, is facing an uphill task trying to solve the problem of the unstable human resource. In addition, the constant rebellion by the pro-Russian separatist is threatening the investment atmosphere in Ukraine. Russia, on the other hand, suffers from the global problem for its acts of aggression against Ukraine. The Russians are facing huge sanctions from their trade partners, majorly from the European Union. Such sanctions include ban on Russian exports and products in general. Consequently, the two economic blocks remain widely feeble with Ukraine due to its smaller economic construct.

The situation in Crimea is one that is considered to be one of the most complex geo-political crisis that Europe has ever faced. When discussing this topic, the region of Crimea refers to the autonomous republic within Ukraine which lies on a peninsula from the south of Ukraine, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.3 It is important to note that the region of Crimea contains a majority of ethnically Russian population. Although these individuals are still Ukrainian citizens, they (generally) identify closely with Russia. During this crisis, Ukraine faced the most amount of unrest from citizens since its independence in 1991.1