Understanding the ukrainian conflict from the perspective of post-soviet decolonization
- Title
- Understanding the ukrainian conflict from the perspective of post-soviet decolonization
- Author
- 강봉구
- Keywords
- RUSSIA; INTERVENTION; CONSTRUCTION; SECURITY; EUROPE; CRISIS; CRIMEA
- Issue Date
- 2020-07
- Publisher
- Slavica Publishers
- Citation
- Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, v. 9, no. 2, page. 1-27
- Abstract
- This article aims to explain the causes (in particular, the motives and objectives of Russia’s actions) of the Ukrainian conflict from a decolonization perspective and its impact on Eurasian interstate and West-Russia relations. Russia’s positioning in Eurasian decolonization is identified as “defensive.” This defensive position as a postimperial metropole has been constructed by combin-ing its “semiperipheral” status within the liberal international order with the assertiveness of a “neocolonial” power challenged by “post-colonial” indepen-dent countries in Eurasia. To a certain extent, the annexation of Crimea was merely an illegitimate settlement of disputes over property rights between two countries, in that the seizure of Crimea occurred in a combination of several factors at various levels. As a result, the motives and objectives of a Russian invasion can be regarded as neither a challenge to the whole post–Cold War European order nor irredentism to reclaim the territory of the Soviet empire. Consequently, post-Crimea development could herald the closing stage of the historical period called the post-Soviet era as the period of Eurasian decoloni-zation.
- URI
- https://muse.jhu.edu/article/785333https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/169123
- ISSN
- 2165-0659
- DOI
- 10.1353/reg.2020.0015
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- RESEARCH INSTITUTE[S](부설연구소) > ASIA PACIFIC RESEARCH CENTER(아태지역연구센터) > Articles
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