Many reasons for war on Ukraine

The war in Ukraine explained, 2022

The war in Ukraine is threatening the security of the region and the world. This paper gives a quick overview of the history of the conflict, Russia's interests in the region, and some recommendation on how to end the war.

Strategic Panorama 2022(2):5-11, 2022

This paper examines three major theoretical frameworks to explain Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine. It is argued that although the war caught many by surprise, it can still be explained by at least several International Relations theories. President Putin’s decision may be erroneous but it should be treated as rational. The purpose of this research is to suggest theoretical frameworks suitable for understanding and evaluating the key foreign policy and security decisions taken by the current Russian leadership. It is assumed that the moves and choices taken by the Kremlin, in particular on the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, resulted from the way decision-makers had perceived the threats and options of the time. It is also assumed that International Relations as a scientific discipline has relevant explanations and frameworks for dealing even with such seemingly irrational decisions like the one taken before the invasion. Political leaders are not going mad; they rather act within specific environments framed by available information and some basic theoretical assumptions. This article focuses on examining Russia’s invasion of Ukraine through the lenses of security dilemma, rational decision-making and power transition process. The author argues that each of these approaches can provide a coherent explanation of a strategic logic behind the decision to wage war. Moreover, by using each of these instruments it may be possible to assess Russia’s foreign and security policy beyond its Ukrainian direction, and also in a retrospect. An interstate war in a modern world is assumed to bear extremely high costs and generate high risks. Because of that, wars are so rare. But this does not imply that wars are impossible. At different levels and under certain conditions, launching a war may still seem to be the best course of action, in particular for revisionist states, even if it a choice between the bad and the worst.

This article aims to show the real responsible for the outbreak of wars in the world such as the one involving Russia and Ukraine at the present time and the wars that occurred from the beginning of the 20th century to the contemporary era. The real cause of the war between Russia and Ukraine is not being considered by many international policy analysts. Out of ignorance or because they are at the service of those who foment this war among so many that took place from the 20th century onwards, these analysts do not reveal that the arms industry is the real cause of wars in the world.

International Affairs and Global Strategy, 2016

War in Ukraine, when it broke up was between the Government and the separatist. This due to the fact that Yanukovich, the then President of Ukraine refuse to endorse the close relationship between Ukraine and European Union (EU). Russia annexed Crimea and also accused of instigating the pro Russian separatist in Donbas region. Cause of the war is said to be NATO and Russia an agreement in Berlin Germany before unification of Germany that NATO should not expand to the Eastern Europe but NATO citing that there were no written document to confirm that. Russia became furious and to retaliate it had to do what it did. The war became not between pro-Russian separatists versus Government but became proxy between Russia and NATO. The war that is going on made to Russia banks on EU and NATO close that to become a member of these organizations you must be clear of boundary dispute. Then Russia was hit with damaging economic sanctions by the West. For most of its existence, Ukraine has been a...

Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 2018

A static or a dynamic world view leads to radically different interpretations of the logic behind Russia's international-political behaviour.

Russia and Ukraine Conflict, 2018

What have been happening in Eastern Ukraine and what was the reason of Russia to invade Ukraine's components.

2022

What does Russia want in Ukraine? Why does Putin invade?

JEBAT JOURNAL , 2024

The armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine that began in 2022 has reached diverse effects and reasons in the system. But Russia deems Ukraine within her sphere of influence and has been infuriated at Ukraine's nearness with the West and her desire to join NATO or the EU. The main purpose of this article is to discuss the multiple effects of the conflict on the global powers and explain how states' national interests and goals have driven their responses in the foreign policy. The main driving point of this article is to focus on the several reasons and effects of Ukraine war that shakes the balance between the global powers in the world and how it disturbs the already existing order. This article will benefit from the perspectives of realism theory when deciphering the causes of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the regional and global implications of this conflict in various ways. To reveal the increasing power race within the system, to be able to see the changing balances within the framework of the concept of national interest and to see the impact of the war within the system, the theory of neorealism has been included in the study. This article will focus on three levels of analysis such as individual, state, and systemic in examining the main driving forces behind of Russia and Ukraine conflict. This war was not only occurred between Russia and Ukraine, it has had also created a huge impact on the other regions or international organizations in a different area. Regardless of the outcome of the war in Ukraine, Russia remains the most dangerous, immediate, and long-term threat to the Euro-Atlantic community and rules-based world order. During this study, it will focus on the descriptive theory by using comparison methods and techniques.

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.

2023

This study uses political science theories of conflicts, wars, war crimes, and genocides and empirical analysis of thousands of primary and secondary sources to examine the war in Ukraine since the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022. The research question is as follow: What are the nature and origins of the war in Ukraine? The analysis shows that the Ukraine war is primarily an interstate war between Russia and Ukraine and a proxy war between NATO and Russia. The Russian invasion in February 2022 was illegal and extreme escalation of conflicts with Ukraine and the West and the civil war in Donbas that started after the Western-backed violent and illegal overthrow of the Ukrainian government by means of the Maidan massacre in 2014. There is no evidence of the Ukrainian genocide or Russian genocide but various evidence of war crimes, primarily by the Russian forces.