title: Unravelling the Enigma
abstract: The 2014 annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine marked a turning point for Russian foreign policy, one that reconfigured the nature of Russia’s relationship with its post-Soviet neighbours, as well as with Europe, the United States, and China. Well before American and European observers were lamenting the demise of the so-called liberal international order, Russian analysts were insistent that United States domination of the post-Cold War world was both temporary and damaging to ov