title: Ryska Federationen och det Tyska Riket - är en analogi möjlig?
abstract: In this essay two parallel analyses of today’s Russia in relation to the annexation of Crimea and the German Empire from its creation following the Franco-Prussian war until the outbreak of the first world war will be conducted with the purpose to answer the question; if an analogy can be made between these cases. These analyses will be from the theoretical perspective of Neoclassical Realism. Following the individual analyses an analogy between the two cases will be presented, which in turn wil