Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
JASSS : THE JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES AND SOCIAL SIMULATION, sa.36, ss.95-113, 2015 (SSCI)
Although it is thought that the cold war between The USA and USSR ended
in 1990s with the collapse of communism, history repeats itself and we
witness that it continues in 2000s where it left. The analysts from the
USA knew that Russia would regain its strength, object to the one pole
hegemony system of the USA and make a big effort to be a leading power
in international system rather than a leaded one. In accordance with the
USA predictions, Russia gathered strength by performing economic and
political improvement between 1990-2000. Since beginning of 2000’s,
Russia argued against US operation towards Afghanistan and Iraq and
Russia said no to the USA centered one pole world system and US
progression with its attitude towards revolutions in region after 2003,
and prospective NATO/EU membership of Georgia and Ukraine in 2008 and
later. In a Ukraine-centered and Cyprus-related crisis in November 2013,
Russia came to realize that The West desires to surround itself and
restrict its authority. Possessing serious concern about deepening
relationship of Ukraine with EU, its probable NATO membership, Russia at
first occupied a place which has great strategic importance and intense
Russian minority population, in other words Russia prompted Russian
citizens and soldiers and occupied Crimea, subsequently annexed it in a
way that international law wouldn’t allow. This study attempts to
analyse the process which started with Ukraine-centered event and
continued with annexation of Crimea, investigate the roles the USA and
Russia play in crisis process and dissertations about annexation of
Crimea, and subsequently discuss whether Russian annexation of
Ukraine-controlled Autonomous Republic of Crimea is appropriate in terms
of international law. Also in this analysis, it is attempted to answer
the questions like “What does self-determination mean and in what
conditions it is applied?, Is it appropriate in terms of international
law that Crimea declares its independency and gets under control of
Russia by attributing it to self-determination policy?, Why did Crimea
become the centre of crisis?, What is strategic importance of Crimea for
Russia and what is redline of Russia in region?.