title: HOW RUSSIA DECIDED TO START THE WAR AGAINST UKRAINE
abstract: The subject of the paper concerns Russia's decision to start a conventional war by invading the independent and sovereign Ukrainian state with regular troops on February 24th, 2022.The research question that I will address is how Putin decided in favour of a military solution to advance his foreign policy goals.The methodology I use to address the issue consists of the following steps: (i) identify mostly in news articles the information that most likely influenced Kremlin's calculus (thus rejec
journal: EUROPOLITY CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE