title: Russian Extraterritorial Naturalisation of Populations — Towards Conceptualisation of the Strategic Policy
abstract: This article examines the development of the Russian foreign policy of extraterritorial naturalisations of populations in the regions of South Ossetia and Ukraine and the interdependence of this policy with the further use of force. The research aims to frame and conceptualise the strategic foreign policy of “passportisation” by crystallising and further comparing its specific features in the two examined cases of application. The article claims that (i) passportisation as a policy remains loose
journal: The Review of International Affairs