Ukraine's unnamed war before the Russian invasion of 2022
A war within the "Russian world" -- A theory of war onset in post-Soviet Eurasia -- Before Maidan -- Regime change (Maidan) -- Irredentist annexation (Crimea) -- The Russian Spring (Eastern Ukraine) -- The war and Russian intervention (Donbas) -- A frozen conflict thaws -- Appendix A: form...
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Cambridge, New York, NY, Port Melbourne, New Delhi, Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | A war within the "Russian world" -- A theory of war onset in post-Soviet Eurasia -- Before Maidan -- Regime change (Maidan) -- Irredentist annexation (Crimea) -- The Russian Spring (Eastern Ukraine) -- The war and Russian intervention (Donbas) -- A frozen conflict thaws -- Appendix A: formalizing a story of strategic Ukrainian adaptation -- Appendix B: Formalizing a story of why Putin chose war. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has its roots in the events of 2013-2014. Russia cynically termed the seditionist conflict in Crimea and Eastern Donbas a 'civil war' in order to claim non-involvement. This flies in the face of evidence, but the authors argue that the social science literature on civil wars can be used help understand why no political solution was found between 2015 and 2022. The book explains how Russia, after seizing Crimea, was reacting to events it could not control and sent troops only to areas of Ukraine where it knew it would face little resistance (Eastern Donbas). Kremlin decisionmakers misunderstood the attachment of the Russian-speaking population to the Ukrainian state and also failed to anticipate that their intervention would transform Ukraine into a more cohesively 'Ukrainian' polity. Drawing on Ukrainian documentary sources, this concise book explains these important developments to a non-specialist readership. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 214-263 Enthält ein Register |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 273 Seiten Diagramme, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9781009055949 978-1-009-05594-9 9781316511497 978-1-316-51149-7 |