Review article

Crimean Peninsula – geopolitical and geostrategic review of past, present and future

Bruno Rukavina orcid.org/0000-0002-8456-5206 ; Fakultet političkih znanosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Republika Hrvatska

Abstract

The paper researches the geopolitical and geostrategic importance‎of the Crimean Peninsula, its annexation by the Russian Federation‎in 2014, and its current significance at the time of the implementation‎of a military operation in Ukraine in 2022. Causal ‎relations are analysed with different views into certain contextual‎ environments. The paper is divided into four parts. The first part‎ contains a theoretical analysis of geopolitics, geostrategy (and‎ geoeconomics), and its application to the Crimean Peninsula. The‎ second part researches the past of Crimean Peninsula through ‎key historical events. The third part describes the 2014 events in Crimea, and in the last part the paper studies the importance of ‎Crimea in the current conflict in Ukraine, which (re)escalated on ‎February 24, 2022.‎

Keywords

Crimea; Russian Federation; Ukraine; geopolitics; geostrategy; history; annexation/reunification

Hrčak ID:

303586

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/303586

Publication date:

7.6.2023.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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