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2024, journal of Policy and Strategy
The two wars in ukraine are different theaters of war but the war is one. Thus this essay takes on the task of debunking arguments against support for both israel and Ukraine
This blog-post is a response to recent comments by Giorgio Agamben and Jurgen Habermas on the Russia-Ukraine war. Following Habermas, it asks the question: Why have the Western European institutions created after World War II to prevent international conflict from escalating out of control been seemingly incapable of stopping the Russia-Ukraine war? The answer to this question, I argue, focuses on the status of sovereign violence in the Westphalian world-system and the UN Charter, which define sovereignty as the monopoly on violence over a designated territory and largely restrict its employment to self-defense, but also permit the exercise of sovereign violence in the international sphere under certain conditions, including the defense of the civil and human rights of ethnic or national minorities who are suffering abuses within another sovereign state's territory. The definition of sovereignty in the Westphalian world-system and the UN Charter, however, is also complicated by the difference between the two paradigms that define sovereignty in the contemporary world: the sovereign state paradigm, which identifies sovereignty with a sovereign monarch (Zelensky or Putin) and a State (Ukraine or Russia); and the popular sovereignty paradigm, which identifies sovereignty with a Nation or People (Ukrainians or Russians). Following these distinctions, I attempt to show that the resolution of the Russia-Ukraine crisis requires both a clarification of the terms of sovereignty over the contested territory of the Donbass and Crimea, and the determination of whether the civilian inhabitants of that contested territory really want to be governed by either Ukraine or Russia. And I argue that it is the second question upon which a satisfactory resolution of the Russia-Ukraine crisis really turns, despite attempts by the West, the US, Russia, and China to determine the resolution of the crisis according to their own self-interests and not those of the civilian inhabitants of Crimea and the Donbass.
Balkan Social Science Review
SECURITY DILEMMA UNVEILED: A SCHOLARLY INQUIRY INTO THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI AND UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN CONFLICTS THROUGH THE PRISM OF OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE REALISM2024 •
This research uses a comparative case study approach to explore the Israeli-Palestinian and Ukrainian-Russian conflicts within the framework of the Security Dilemma. It employs primary and secondary sources. The study analyzes each conflict individually while allowing for meaningful comparisons between them to identify patterns in each case. The research challenges the traditional dichotomy between offensive and defensive realism by proposing that state behavior is influenced by an interplay between both paradigms based on strategic calculations. States may engage in offensive behavior when advantageous or adopt defensive strategies out of necessity. This paper offers insights into these dynamics, thereby generating new perspectives in political science debates.
The mainstream corporate media has become nothing but a mouthpiece for the US Military Industrial Complex. My goal in this lecture is three-fold: 1) to provide the missing context—for a better understanding of the Ukraine war; 2) To establish the responsibility of the US in starting the COLD WAR and in provoking Russia to “invade” Ukraine, with the ultimate objective of weakening, if not destroying Russia altogether; 3) to counter the war-mongering narrative of the US state—by citing documented information that the mainstream media ignores and to explore the pathways to a real and lasting peace. (This was my working draft for my 1 March 2023 public webinar lecture, "The Empire Goes Berserk--First Ukraine, Then China--Towards World War Three)
Numerous contributions on the current war in Ukraine bring up the expansion of NATO as the principal factor that led to this calamity. While this article agrees with this view, it points out that these explanations still fall short. The decision to enlarge NATO almost three decades ago was extremely controversial. A large number of politicians, government officials, and experts opposed the proposal for expansion. Yet the proponents for expansion won. The article explains why the proposal for the enlargement of NATO eventually won the day. It takes a broad systemic perspective on this issue, bringing up other ancillary factors that affected the decision. The article argues that the need to organize the post-Cold War world order was the most important inspiration for the proponents of this solution. While the article agrees that the world needs new order, it sees the approach adopted by American policy makes is profoundly flawed and, for this reason, led to the current fragmentation and divisions in the world, rather than to its unification. The war in Ukraine is just one consequence of this flawed approach.
Political Theology Network
Atrocities in the Heart of Europe Again: On the War in Ukraine2022 •
I am a Christian theologian who abhors war and believes that all other reasonable means should be exhausted before the use of lethal force is undertaken. At the same time, I am convinced that there are times – albeit rare – when the evil is so great that no measure other than force will prevent grave atrocities on a massive scale. The effort to defeat Russia in Ukraine is such a case.
2022 •
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/vol1/iss4/7/
The conflict in the Ukraine since 2014 makes for wide reportage on the globe. Frequently the mantra is bandied around that the only culprit in this conflict is Russia under her President Putin. Pro-USA and NATO news outlets abides by a recipe-like villification of Russia and has reach a cresendo of USA-like groupthink excluding - even demonisation of alternative viewpoints. This contribution argues that the matter is far more complicated in a historical and political perspective. Not taking note of other viewpoints and realities as well as collective historical memories result in a simplified and static, if not highly ideologised view that undermines a deeper understanding on the conflict which in turn prevents, even precludes, any attempts to reach a negotiated resolution and thus averting the predictable growing disaster of this European conflict.
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