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1 Online-Ressource (xii, 98 Seiten)
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Diagramme
Edition:
First published
ISBN:
9781003375326
Series Statement:
Routledge focus
Content:
Debating the War in Ukraine discusses whether the war could have been avoided, and, if so, how? In this dialogical book, the authors discuss nodal points of history in terms of counterfactuals and contrastive explanations, concluding by considering future possibilities.They start in the 1990s where several causal elements of the war originate involving Russia's economic developments and Europe's security arrangements. Moving on to the next decade, they focus on the Iraq war, colour revolutions, and NATO's 2008 announcement that Ukraine and Georgia will become members. Finally, they explore the past decade including the Ukrainian crisis of 2013-2014, the annexation of Crimea, and the consecutive war in east Ukraine. The current war can also be seen as a continuum of that war. The authors agree that NATO's 2008 announcement on Ukraine's and Georgia's NATO membership was an unnecessary provocation, and that the implementation of the Minsk agreement could have prevented the current war, but otherwise their analysis of counterfactual possibilities differs, especially when it comes to the action-possibilities of the West (including diverse actors). These differences are not just dependent on different readings of relevant evidence but, importantly, stem from dissimilar contrast spaces and divergent theoretical understandings of the nature of states and mechanisms of international relations and political economy.
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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 80-91, Register
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The 1990s : sowing the seeds of war after the end of the Cold War
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The 2000s : wars, revolutions, and misfired declarations
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The 2010s : the war in Ukraine starts
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Coercive diplomacy and the outbreak of war in 2021-2022
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The shape of things to come
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032450827
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032450865
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003375326
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