title: Borderline strategies: Calibrated territorial expansionism in the game theory searchlight
abstract: After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has pursued a broad range of border policies – diplomatic defence of territorial status quo vis-à-vis Japan, marginal concessions to China, benign neglect vis-à-vis Mongolia and Kazakhstan, and militarized territorial revisionism in Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine. Whereas Moscow’s territorial status quo stance in the Far East and the non-advancement of territorial claims against the NATO-bound Baltic States can be easily framed in academic discourses