title: Beyond Russia’s ‘Versailles syndrome’. Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 58, November 2014
abstract: Russia alleges that at the end of the Cold War it underwent a soft version of a Versailles Treaty, pushing it into the periphery of global politics and cutting it out of European decision-making. The crisis in Ukraine is about the survival of Putin’s regime and the dismantling of the post-Cold War settlement. We should not accept the fallacious narrative of victimhood propagated by the Kremlin’s Versailles syndrome. Even so, it is time to explore practical ways of coexisting with Russia. The Hel
journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)