title: Russian aggression: Putin's quest for power in the 21st century
abstract: This thesis describes the history of the Soviet Union, the enlargement of the EU and NATO and the possible factors
  that have influenced Russia’s decision to commit the invasion of Georgia in 2008 and to annex the Crimea in 2014.
  The central question of the research compares the two responses from the EU and more importantly, describes why
  the two differ from each other. The central research question of this thesis is: “Why are the EU and NATO
  responding differently to Russia’s annexation of 