Debating the War in Ukraine - Tuomas Forsberg, Heikki Patomäki

Debating the War in Ukraine

Counterfactual Histories and Future Possibilities
Buch | Softcover
98 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-45086-5 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
Debating the War in Ukraine discusses whether the war in Ukraine 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.
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.

This short, highly accessible book will be of great interest to all those studying and working in international relations and its various subfields such as peace and conflict studies and security studies, as well as all those wishing to understand more about the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. The Open Access version of this book was funded by University of Helsinki Library.

Tuomas Forsberg is Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and Professor of International Relations at Tampere University, Finland. Heikki Patomäki is Professor of World Politics at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and a Life Member of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge, UK.

1. Introduction: On Explanations, Contrasts, and Counterfactuals 2. The 1990s: Sowing the Seeds of War After the End of the Cold War 3. The 2000s: Wars, Revolutions, and Misfired Declarations 4. The 2010s: The War in Ukraine Starts 5. Coercive Diplomacy and the Outbreak of War in 2021–2022 6. The Shape of Things to Come

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 204 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10 1-032-45086-X / 103245086X
ISBN-13 978-1-032-45086-5 / 9781032450865
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