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<journal-id>1645-9199</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Relações Internacionais (R:I)]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Relações Internacionais]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1645-9199</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[IPRI-UNL]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1645-91992025000100025</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.23906/ri2025.85a03</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="pt"><![CDATA[A invasão russa da Ucrânia e a emergência do eixo da conveniência sino-russo]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Sénica]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Sónia]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Lisboa ]]></addr-line>
<country>Portugal</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>85</numero>
<fpage>25</fpage>
<lpage>35</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1645-91992025000100025&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1645-91992025000100025&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1645-91992025000100025&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="pt"><p><![CDATA[Resumo A invasão russa da Ucrânia emerge como a materialização de um projeto político da Rússia de Putin. A política externa russa mais assertiva e agora militarizada motivou a confrontação estratégica com o Ocidente e promoveu o reforço de alianças e parcerias estratégicas visando contornar o isolamento internacional, deter a influência ocidental e criar uma ordem multipolar. O receio de que a influência ocidental atente contra a preservação do regime russo fundamenta os princípios que animam a política externa russa sob a liderança de Vladimir Putin. A guerra russa na Ucrânia apresenta-se como uma guerra existencial para a Rússia de Putin. Em que medida o reforço da parceria estratégica com a China serve os propósitos de Moscovo e de que forma a ambiguidade pró-russa de Pequim tem sido facilitadora da política militarizada russa na Europa motivam a presente reflexão.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine emerges as the materialization of a political project of Putin&#8217;s Russia. The most assertive and now militarized Russian foreign policy after the invasion of Ukraine paves the way for a strategic confrontation with the West. It promotes strengthening alliances and strategic partnerships to circumvent international isolation, deter Western influence, and create a multipolar order. The fear that Western influence will threaten the Russian regime&#8217;s preservation underlies the principles that underpin Russian foreign policy under the leadership of Vladimir Putin. The Russian war in Ukraine presents itself as an existential war for Putin&#8217;s Russia. How the strengthening of the strategic partnership with China serves Moscow&#8217;s purposes and how Beijing&#8217;s pro-Russian ambiguity has facilitated Russia&#8217;s militarized policy in Europe motivates this reflection.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Federação Russa]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[China]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Ucrânia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[eixo da conveniência]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Russian Federation]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[China]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[axis of convenience]]></kwd>
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