Grand Strategy

Energy, climate change and security: The Russian strategic conundrum

“…Russia's endowment with energy resources is often presented as one of its key strategic advantages, but sometimes it also is viewed as creating a dangerous addiction on resource rent (Gaddy & Ickes, 2020). When thinking in strategic terms, policymakers must explore how to combine various instruments of national powerincluding abundant energy resourcesto achieve their strategic objectives in a given international context (Biddle, 2015;Milevski, 2018).…”