Early in the year 2014 Russia conducted an irregular warfare campaign in the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, in a surprisingly swift operation towards an Ukrainian loss . The warfare strategy focus of this thesis is the irregular aspect of the conflict. The conflict was discussed by NATO in a debate earlier this year. Conclusions stated that both NATO and the EU should enhance their defence and resilience against the irregular aspect of warfare, in order to repel and deter such threats in the future. Academics have different arguments about whether the Russian success was achieved using enemy centric or population centric irregular warfare. The aim of this study is to examine Russia´s annexation of Crimea based on theories of irregular warfare. By adding this research based on the conflict in Crimea, other studies based on the case may increase their scientific validity and reliability. The result shows that during the conflict, Russia used population centric irregular warfare, in parallel with a few aspects of enemy centric warfare. Therefore the irregular warfare conducted by Russia could be explained using both of the stated theories.

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World society has been an eyewitness to a couple of actions during the 21st century that has disturbed the peaceful coexistence of neighbouring countries. As a consequence of this disturbance some parts of one of the countries was expropriated. These cases were events that took place in Georgia 2008 and Ukraine 2014. It is also obvious that it was the same country that contributed to these dramatic developments of the situation in the regions. Based on these facts, one of these two cases were chosen in order to analyse the development of the events before the occurrences took place. This study will primarily be focused on finding reasons for differences in the views of Russia and the UN on the occurrences that took place in Ukraine 2014. This regards the fact that Crimea peninsula being a part of Ukraine during the second half of 20th century and the beginning of the 21th century once again has become a part of Russia as an assignee of former Soviet Union. This event has a historical explanation because it was during the Soviet time that Crimea peninsula became a part of Ukraine. To find an explanation for the difference in views the current study will use a qualitative study of different academic articles, treaties and resolutions. / Världssamhälle har under 2000-talet vittnat vissa händelseutvecklingar som har kränkt en fredlig samexistens av grannländerna och som konsekvens av denna drabbning ett av länderna har förlorat en del av sitt territorium. Dessa fall har ägt rum i Georgien 2008 och Ukraina 2014. Det är dessutom självklart att ett och samma land har bidragit till sådana dramatiska händelseutvecklingar i regionerna. Undersökningen kommer att utgå från dessa uppgifter och analysera ett av dessa två fall för att följa utvecklingen av händelserna strax innan kravallerna bröt ut i regionen. Denna studie kommer framför allt fokuseras på att hitta anledningar till skillnaderna i Rysslands och General Församlingens medlemsmajoritet syn på de händelserna som har ägt rum i Ukraina 2014.  Med detta menas naturligtvis att Krimhalvön efter att vara en del av Ukraina under den andra hälften av 1900-talet och början av 2000-talet återigen blivit en del av Ryssland som är en arvtagare till före detta Sovjetunionen. Faktum att Krimhalvön återigen har blivit en del av Ryssland har en historisk förklaring eftersom Krimhalvön har blivit en del av Ukraina under Sovjetunionens tid. Undersökningen kommer att använda en kvalitativ textanalys för att analysera olika akademiska artiklar, avtal samt resolutioner och hitta förklaringen till skillnaden i synen på att Krim återigen har blivit en del av Ryssland.