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Explanatory potential of the postcolonial approach for understanding the Russia–Ukraine war

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The 2022 full-scale Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exposed the limits of mainstream IR theories in explaining developments in Eastern Europe. This publication argues that a postcolonial approach helps explain both Russia’s aggressive behaviour and Ukraine’s desperate resistance by examining historical power relations, coloniser-colonised dichotomy, neocolonial practices, and the applicability of the concepts of the Other and Subaltern to Russian perceptions of Ukrainians. (PDF) Olena Khylko, Maksym Khylko

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