Conclusions

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Notes

1 The conclusion on sunk costs and their influence on the future course of Russia’s policy was proposed by Dumitru Minzarari in conversation with Igor Sutyagin at the Aleksanteri Conference at Helsinki University on 22 October 2015.

2 Teis Jensen and Adrian Croft, ‘Russia Threatens to Aim Nuclear Missiles at Denmark Ships if it Joins NATO Shield’, Reuters, 22 March 2015.

3 Rossiyskaya Gazeta [Russian Gazette], ‘Ukaz Prezidenta Rossiyskoy Federatsii ot 31 dekabrya 2015 goda No. 683 “O Strategii natsionalnoy bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii” [The President of the Russian Federation’s Decree of 31 December 2015 No. 683 “On the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation”]’, para. 12 of the ‘Strategiya natsionalnoy bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii [National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation]’, 31 December 2015, <www.rg.ru/2015/12/31/nac-bezopasnost-site-dok.html>, accessed 25 October 2016.

4 Ibid., paras 15, 106–07.

5 Ibid., para. 29.

6 Carl von Clausewitz, On War, Book 6, Chapter 5 (London: N Trübner, 1873), <https://www.clausewitz.com/readings/OnWar1873/BK6ch05.html#a>, accessed 25 October 2016.

7 Ibid., Book 1, Chapter 1.