Elias Götz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4074958 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Elias Götz |
| PRENOMES | Elias |
| SOBRENOME | Götz |
| ASSINATURA | GÖTZ E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7788-9640 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 193 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Beyond confrontation
The study of how rival powers interact when they engage in proxy wars has generated many important insights, but the field remains fragmented. This article integrates these insights by offering a typological framework focused on interaction patterns among rival powers. The framework rests on two key choices rival powers face when conducting proxy interventions in third-party conflicts. The first is whether to support the same or opposing local wa…
Great Power Competition in Contested States
This article explores how great power competition has affected the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh and the attendant conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It first provides a short history of the conflict, followed by an analysis of the strategic interests and instruments of key external players, including Russia, Turkey, and the United States. Next, the article analyzes Nagorno-Karabakh as a subject of geopolitical competition, h…
Russia’s War Against Ukraine
The reasons for Russia's attack on Ukraine have become a much-debated topic.In this introductory article to this special issue, we identify three types of explanations that focus, respectively, on (1) Putin's imperial ambitions, (2) domestic factors inside Russia, and (3) external pressures.We show that each perspective offers valuable insights but fails to provide a convincing stand-alone account.Building on this, we put forward an integrated, m…
Takeover by Stealth
After Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Aleksandr Lukashenka and his regime began drifting away from Moscow’s orbit of influence. Less than eight years later, Belarus has turned into a client state, serving as a bridgehead for Russia’s large-scale attack on Ukraine. How could this happen? The existing literature tends to emphasize ideological and regime-type factors. Such accounts, however, are incomplete. This article presents a realist pat…
Russia’s Role in World Politics
Why Russia attacked Ukraine
This article explores Russia’s attack on Ukraine using the lens of strategic culture. Specifically, two strands in Russian strategic culture are identified. The first is a deep-seated sense of vulnerability, especially vis-à-vis “the West.” To counter this perceived threat, Russia’s national security establishment has long emphasized the importance of possessing strategic depth and buffer zones. The second strand revolves around a feeling of enti…
Taking the Longer View
This essay complements the other contributions to this special issue by placing Russia’s neighbourhood policy into a broader temporal and theoretical perspective. It shows that Russia’s political elite during the last three decades has been largely united behind the goal of establishing a Moscow-centred regional security order. Yet, despite this broad-based consensus, Russia’s policy in the former Soviet area has varied markedly across time and s…
Near Abroad
Russia's Role in World Politics
Russia and the Question of World Order
Neoclassical Realist Theories, Intervening Variables, and Paradigmatic Boundaries
Extant neoclassical realist scholarship has identified a range of real-world factors (e.g., state capacity, interest group pressure, strategic culture, and leadership personality) that serve as intervening variables between systemic imperatives and states’ foreign policy behavior. Despite these elaborations, the intervening variable concept remains underdeveloped. In this article, I show that neoclassical realists have lumped together three diffe…
The Power of Putin in Russian Foreign Policy
Michael McFaul's article “Putin, Putinism, and the Domestic Determinants of Russian Foreign Policy” is well timed and likely to play a big role in shaping the debate about contemporary Russian foreign policy.1 The core argument is straightforward: President Vladimir Putin's illiberal worldviews are a major driver of Russia's international behavior. To be clear, McFaul acknowledges that other factors influence Russian behavior as well. In particul…
Russia and the question of world order
There is broad agreement among commentators and analysts that Russia seeks to undermine the US-led liberal international order. At the same time, there is considerable disagreement over the nature and extent of the challenge Moscow poses, the underlying drivers of Russian revisionism, and how the West should respond. In this article, we argue that it is possible to distinguish between three major perspectives. In brief, the first suggests that Ru…
Status Matters in World Politics
This article explores the burgeoning literature on status in world politics. Toward that end, it reviews three recently published books. The three books are representative of the different theoretical perspectives that have come to dominate status research in international relations. Renshon's Fighting for Status offers a rationalist–instrumental approach; Larson and Shevchenko's Quest for Status draws on insights from social identity theory; and…
The overlooked importance of economics
This paper shows that, during 1991–1992, the George H.W. Bush Administration settled to pursue NATO enlargement in order to ensure both stability in and influence over Europe. Both were necessary subsidiary objectives towards achieving long-term security aims and the medium-term goal of furthering American prosperity. Bush officials concluded that European instability, protectionism, and self-absorption could menace US-led economic globalization.…
Russia’s role in world politics
Strategic imperatives, status aspirations, or domestic interests? Explaining Russia’s nuclear weapons policy
China, Russia, and twenty-first century global geopolitics
Since the end of the Cold War, Russia and China have developed close ties in economic and diplomatic affairs. In recent years, however, cooperation between the two has expanded even further. In the wake of the Crimea crisis, Russia and China signed a historic gas deal, estimated to be worth over US$400 billion. Additionally, the two countries have stepped up their military-to-military cooperation and conducted several naval drills in the South Ch…
Enemy at the Gates
What drives Russia's Baltic policy? To answer this question, I develop a neoclassical realist framework that explains how local great powers act toward neighboring small states. In brief, the framework argues that local great powers face strong systemic incentives to establish a sphere of influence around their borders. Toward that end, they can employ positive and negative incentives. The general rule is that the higher the level of external pre…
In the hegemon’s shadow
Evan Montgomery’s In the hegemon’s shadow is an excellent book. Its main objective is to explain an empirical puzzle, namely, how system-wide great powers deal with ascendant countries in periphera
Putin, the State, and War
Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and meddling in eastern Ukraine are the latest signs of Russia’s increasingly assertive behavior in the post-Soviet space. Not surprisingly, Moscow’s actions have become the source of much debate. This article maps the fast-growing literature on the subject and assesses four types of explanations: (1) decision-maker explanations focusing on Putin’s personality traits and worldviews; (2) domestic political accounts em…
Neorealism and Russia’s Ukraine policy, 1991-present
What lies behind Russia’s Ukraine policy? This article places Russia’s current actions in Ukraine into a broader temporal and theoretical perspective. Drawing on the work of John Mearsheimer, I adjust neorealist theory to explain why and how major powers build regional spheres of influence. Briefly, the theory says that major powers use soft-power and hard-power tools to constrain the foreign-policy autonomy of neighbouring states. How major powe…
Russia, the west, and the Ukraine crisis
The purpose of this special issue is to examine the international dimension of the Ukraine crisis. The focus is on Moscow’s actions towards Ukraine, and what they imply for European security and Russia–Western relations more generally. This introductory article takes stock of the current debate. Three major positions are identified, here labelled ‘revisionist Russia’ (Perspective I), ‘victim Russia’ (Perspective II), and ‘troublemaker Russia’ (Pe…
It's geopolitics, stupid
What lies behind Russia's annexation of Crimea and its confrontational policies towards Ukraine? This article challenges the widely held perspective that President Putin's personality and his security-service background is the central driver of Russia's Ukraine policy. Instead, it puts forward a geopolitical explanation that emphasizes three factors: Ukraine's geographic location; the EU's increased activism in Eastern Europe; and the pro-western…
The Great Delusion
In the The Great Delusion, John Mearsheimer takes on the big game and effectively provides two books in one. The first is a study of the relationship between the three isms – liberalism, realism, a
Why Russia attacked Ukraine
This article explores Russia’s attack on Ukraine using the lens of strategic culture. Specifically, two strands in Russian strategic culture are identified. The first is a deep-seated sense of vulnerability, especially vis-à-vis “the West.” To counter this perceived threat, Russia’s national security establishment has long emphasized the importance of possessing strategic depth and buffer zones. The second strand revolves around a feeling of enti…
Putin, the State, and War
Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and meddling in eastern Ukraine are the latest signs of Russia’s increasingly assertive behavior in the post-Soviet space. Not surprisingly, Moscow’s actions have become the source of much debate. This article maps the fast-growing literature on the subject and assesses four types of explanations: (1) decision-maker explanations focusing on Putin’s personality traits and worldviews; (2) domestic political accounts em…
Neorealism and Russia’s Ukraine policy, 1991-present
What lies behind Russia’s Ukraine policy? This article places Russia’s current actions in Ukraine into a broader temporal and theoretical perspective. Drawing on the work of John Mearsheimer, I adjust neorealist theory to explain why and how major powers build regional spheres of influence. Briefly, the theory says that major powers use soft-power and hard-power tools to constrain the foreign-policy autonomy of neighbouring states. How major powe…
Russia, the west, and the Ukraine crisis
The purpose of this special issue is to examine the international dimension of the Ukraine crisis. The focus is on Moscow’s actions towards Ukraine, and what they imply for European security and Russia–Western relations more generally. This introductory article takes stock of the current debate. Three major positions are identified, here labelled ‘revisionist Russia’ (Perspective I), ‘victim Russia’ (Perspective II), and ‘troublemaker Russia’ (Pe…
Russia and the question of world order
There is broad agreement among commentators and analysts that Russia seeks to undermine the US-led liberal international order. At the same time, there is considerable disagreement over the nature and extent of the challenge Moscow poses, the underlying drivers of Russian revisionism, and how the West should respond. In this article, we argue that it is possible to distinguish between three major perspectives. In brief, the first suggests that Ru…
It's geopolitics, stupid
What lies behind Russia's annexation of Crimea and its confrontational policies towards Ukraine? This article challenges the widely held perspective that President Putin's personality and his security-service background is the central driver of Russia's Ukraine policy. Instead, it puts forward a geopolitical explanation that emphasizes three factors: Ukraine's geographic location; the EU's increased activism in Eastern Europe; and the pro-western…
Status Matters in World Politics
This article explores the burgeoning literature on status in world politics. Toward that end, it reviews three recently published books. The three books are representative of the different theoretical perspectives that have come to dominate status research in international relations. Renshon's Fighting for Status offers a rationalist–instrumental approach; Larson and Shevchenko's Quest for Status draws on insights from social identity theory; and…
Near Abroad
Neoclassical Realist Theories, Intervening Variables, and Paradigmatic Boundaries
Extant neoclassical realist scholarship has identified a range of real-world factors (e.g., state capacity, interest group pressure, strategic culture, and leadership personality) that serve as intervening variables between systemic imperatives and states’ foreign policy behavior. Despite these elaborations, the intervening variable concept remains underdeveloped. In this article, I show that neoclassical realists have lumped together three diffe…
Taking the Longer View
This essay complements the other contributions to this special issue by placing Russia’s neighbourhood policy into a broader temporal and theoretical perspective. It shows that Russia’s political elite during the last three decades has been largely united behind the goal of establishing a Moscow-centred regional security order. Yet, despite this broad-based consensus, Russia’s policy in the former Soviet area has varied markedly across time and s…
Russia’s War Against Ukraine
The reasons for Russia's attack on Ukraine have become a much-debated topic.In this introductory article to this special issue, we identify three types of explanations that focus, respectively, on (1) Putin's imperial ambitions, (2) domestic factors inside Russia, and (3) external pressures.We show that each perspective offers valuable insights but fails to provide a convincing stand-alone account.Building on this, we put forward an integrated, m…
Strategic imperatives, status aspirations, or domestic interests? Explaining Russia’s nuclear weapons policy
Russia’s role in world politics
Takeover by Stealth
After Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Aleksandr Lukashenka and his regime began drifting away from Moscow’s orbit of influence. Less than eight years later, Belarus has turned into a client state, serving as a bridgehead for Russia’s large-scale attack on Ukraine. How could this happen? The existing literature tends to emphasize ideological and regime-type factors. Such accounts, however, are incomplete. This article presents a realist pat…
The Power of Putin in Russian Foreign Policy
Michael McFaul's article “Putin, Putinism, and the Domestic Determinants of Russian Foreign Policy” is well timed and likely to play a big role in shaping the debate about contemporary Russian foreign policy.1 The core argument is straightforward: President Vladimir Putin's illiberal worldviews are a major driver of Russia's international behavior. To be clear, McFaul acknowledges that other factors influence Russian behavior as well. In particul…
The overlooked importance of economics
This paper shows that, during 1991–1992, the George H.W. Bush Administration settled to pursue NATO enlargement in order to ensure both stability in and influence over Europe. Both were necessary subsidiary objectives towards achieving long-term security aims and the medium-term goal of furthering American prosperity. Bush officials concluded that European instability, protectionism, and self-absorption could menace US-led economic globalization.…
It's geopolitics, stupid
What lies behind Russia's annexation of Crimea and its confrontational policies towards Ukraine? This article challenges the widely held perspective that President Putin's personality and his security-service background is the central driver of Russia's Ukraine policy. Instead, it puts forward a geopolitical explanation that emphasizes three factors: Ukraine's geographic location; the EU's increased activism in Eastern Europe; and the pro-western…
The limits of partnership
In the hegemon’s shadow
Evan Montgomery’s In the hegemon’s shadow is an excellent book. Its main objective is to explain an empirical puzzle, namely, how system-wide great powers deal with ascendant countries in periphera
Putin, the State, and War
Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and meddling in eastern Ukraine are the latest signs of Russia’s increasingly assertive behavior in the post-Soviet space. Not surprisingly, Moscow’s actions have become the source of much debate. This article maps the fast-growing literature on the subject and assesses four types of explanations: (1) decision-maker explanations focusing on Putin’s personality traits and worldviews; (2) domestic political accounts em…
Neorealism and Russia’s Ukraine policy, 1991-present
What lies behind Russia’s Ukraine policy? This article places Russia’s current actions in Ukraine into a broader temporal and theoretical perspective. Drawing on the work of John Mearsheimer, I adjust neorealist theory to explain why and how major powers build regional spheres of influence. Briefly, the theory says that major powers use soft-power and hard-power tools to constrain the foreign-policy autonomy of neighbouring states. How major powe…
Russia, the west, and the Ukraine crisis
The purpose of this special issue is to examine the international dimension of the Ukraine crisis. The focus is on Moscow’s actions towards Ukraine, and what they imply for European security and Russia–Western relations more generally. This introductory article takes stock of the current debate. Three major positions are identified, here labelled ‘revisionist Russia’ (Perspective I), ‘victim Russia’ (Perspective II), and ‘troublemaker Russia’ (Pe…
Enemy at the Gates
What drives Russia's Baltic policy? To answer this question, I develop a neoclassical realist framework that explains how local great powers act toward neighboring small states. In brief, the framework argues that local great powers face strong systemic incentives to establish a sphere of influence around their borders. Toward that end, they can employ positive and negative incentives. The general rule is that the higher the level of external pre…
Russia’s role in world politics
Strategic imperatives, status aspirations, or domestic interests? Explaining Russia’s nuclear weapons policy
China, Russia, and twenty-first century global geopolitics
Since the end of the Cold War, Russia and China have developed close ties in economic and diplomatic affairs. In recent years, however, cooperation between the two has expanded even further. In the wake of the Crimea crisis, Russia and China signed a historic gas deal, estimated to be worth over US$400 billion. Additionally, the two countries have stepped up their military-to-military cooperation and conducted several naval drills in the South Ch…
Status Matters in World Politics
This article explores the burgeoning literature on status in world politics. Toward that end, it reviews three recently published books. The three books are representative of the different theoretical perspectives that have come to dominate status research in international relations. Renshon's Fighting for Status offers a rationalist–instrumental approach; Larson and Shevchenko's Quest for Status draws on insights from social identity theory; and…
The overlooked importance of economics
This paper shows that, during 1991–1992, the George H.W. Bush Administration settled to pursue NATO enlargement in order to ensure both stability in and influence over Europe. Both were necessary subsidiary objectives towards achieving long-term security aims and the medium-term goal of furthering American prosperity. Bush officials concluded that European instability, protectionism, and self-absorption could menace US-led economic globalization.…
Russia and the Question of World Order
Neoclassical Realist Theories, Intervening Variables, and Paradigmatic Boundaries
Extant neoclassical realist scholarship has identified a range of real-world factors (e.g., state capacity, interest group pressure, strategic culture, and leadership personality) that serve as intervening variables between systemic imperatives and states’ foreign policy behavior. Despite these elaborations, the intervening variable concept remains underdeveloped. In this article, I show that neoclassical realists have lumped together three diffe…
The Power of Putin in Russian Foreign Policy
Michael McFaul's article “Putin, Putinism, and the Domestic Determinants of Russian Foreign Policy” is well timed and likely to play a big role in shaping the debate about contemporary Russian foreign policy.1 The core argument is straightforward: President Vladimir Putin's illiberal worldviews are a major driver of Russia's international behavior. To be clear, McFaul acknowledges that other factors influence Russian behavior as well. In particul…
Russia and the question of world order
There is broad agreement among commentators and analysts that Russia seeks to undermine the US-led liberal international order. At the same time, there is considerable disagreement over the nature and extent of the challenge Moscow poses, the underlying drivers of Russian revisionism, and how the West should respond. In this article, we argue that it is possible to distinguish between three major perspectives. In brief, the first suggests that Ru…
Russia’s Role in World Politics
Why Russia attacked Ukraine
This article explores Russia’s attack on Ukraine using the lens of strategic culture. Specifically, two strands in Russian strategic culture are identified. The first is a deep-seated sense of vulnerability, especially vis-à-vis “the West.” To counter this perceived threat, Russia’s national security establishment has long emphasized the importance of possessing strategic depth and buffer zones. The second strand revolves around a feeling of enti…
Taking the Longer View
This essay complements the other contributions to this special issue by placing Russia’s neighbourhood policy into a broader temporal and theoretical perspective. It shows that Russia’s political elite during the last three decades has been largely united behind the goal of establishing a Moscow-centred regional security order. Yet, despite this broad-based consensus, Russia’s policy in the former Soviet area has varied markedly across time and s…
Near Abroad
Russia's Role in World Politics
Takeover by Stealth
After Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Aleksandr Lukashenka and his regime began drifting away from Moscow’s orbit of influence. Less than eight years later, Belarus has turned into a client state, serving as a bridgehead for Russia’s large-scale attack on Ukraine. How could this happen? The existing literature tends to emphasize ideological and regime-type factors. Such accounts, however, are incomplete. This article presents a realist pat…
The Great Delusion
In the The Great Delusion, John Mearsheimer takes on the big game and effectively provides two books in one. The first is a study of the relationship between the three isms – liberalism, realism, a
Russia’s War Against Ukraine
The reasons for Russia's attack on Ukraine have become a much-debated topic.In this introductory article to this special issue, we identify three types of explanations that focus, respectively, on (1) Putin's imperial ambitions, (2) domestic factors inside Russia, and (3) external pressures.We show that each perspective offers valuable insights but fails to provide a convincing stand-alone account.Building on this, we put forward an integrated, m…
Great Power Competition in Contested States
This article explores how great power competition has affected the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh and the attendant conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It first provides a short history of the conflict, followed by an analysis of the strategic interests and instruments of key external players, including Russia, Turkey, and the United States. Next, the article analyzes Nagorno-Karabakh as a subject of geopolitical competition, h…
Political science (22 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Economics (15 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Political economy (15 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Politics (13 obras) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (11 obras) · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics (10 obras) · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (8 obras)