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Chapter 8, ‘Russia and the European Security Order: Impact and Implications of the Ukraine Crisis’, by John Berryman, provides an important lead in to the issue of the impact of Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine. He tracks in some detail 20 years of NATO’s encroachment eastward and the growing challenges that the West has generated to Russia’s sense of security, which he points out is the driving force in more recent Russian assertiveness.

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Berryman, J. (2017). Russia and the European Security Order: Impact and Implications of the Ukraine Crisis. In: Kanet, R. (eds) The Russian Challenge to the European Security Environment . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50775-0_8

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