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The main motivation of this thesis is comprised in the change of paradigm, from geopolitics
to geoeconomics enforcing the “soft power” terminology. Alongside the ideological motivation is
the re-emergence of Russian Federation on the international stage. This re-emergence is scarcely
analyzed and presented in literature, and even more, it is rarely linked to geo-economic factors. This
process developed in time, and the academic analysis failed to cover this subject because of other
urgent issues like the economic crisis, migrant crisis and the wars in the Middle East. It is
interesting how the “Russian bear” has awakened after the Ukrainian Conflict and Russia combines
military (“hard power”) with economics (“soft power”). This things mostly happened because of the
Russian need of counterbalancing the economic power of the western bloc, here in name of
European Union and its close partners. |
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