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Russia does not clearly outline the perimeter of its vital interests, perhaps in an attempt to preserve some strategic ambiguity for NATO.
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The mobilizing success of the moral shocks is interpreted through introducing the notion of emotional path dependence
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By thinking that Europe is “finished business” NATO almost lost the feeling of importance and sense of partnership on its immediate borders.
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External challenges in the form of an oil embargo in 1973, the above-mentioned “gas crisis” and the necessity to ensure energy imports have little effects on European foreign energy policy
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the absence of hard security assurances to the partner countries within the framework of the ENP or under other EU’s policies provoked Russia to launch a hybrid war in Ukraine in 2014