Offensive realism, differentiation theory, and the war in Ukraine

In this article, I shall demonstrate that several of the arguments made in favour of an offensive realist explanation of Russian actions in Ukraine as part of a power balancing process are inconsistent both with available empirical knowledge of the conflict in Ukraine and with the structural logic p...

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Autor: Kleinschmidt J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Colombia
Institución:Universidad del Rosario
Repositorio:Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
Idioma:inglés
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https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22170
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Palabra clave:Civil society
Empirical analysis
Political conflict
Political power
Political theory
War
Russian federation
Ukraine
Conflict
Differentiation theory
Offensive realism
Russia
World society
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spelling Offensive realism, differentiation theory, and the war in UkraineKleinschmidt J.Civil societyEmpirical analysisPolitical conflictPolitical powerPolitical theoryWarRussian federationUkraineConflictDifferentiation theoryOffensive realismRussiaUkraineWorld societyIn this article, I shall demonstrate that several of the arguments made in favour of an offensive realist explanation of Russian actions in Ukraine as part of a power balancing process are inconsistent both with available empirical knowledge of the conflict in Ukraine and with the structural logic postulated by offensive realist theory itself. Rather than a conflict about power in a material sense, I will argue that the war in Ukraine is better understood as a conflict about the incompatibility of the Russian state structure to cope with the imperatives of functional differentiation as understood by theories of world society. © 2018, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., part of Springer Nature.Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.20192020-05-25T23:55:40Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-018-0150-41740389813845748https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22170reponame:Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosarioinstname:Universidad del Rosarioinstacron:Universidad del Rosarioenghttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85046039007&doi=10.1057%2fs41311-018-0150-4&partnerID=40&md5=027802b8f38af2f77ab6c8313f175e20info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2022-12-06T03:04:26Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Offensive realism, differentiation theory, and the war in Ukraine
title Offensive realism, differentiation theory, and the war in Ukraine
spellingShingle Offensive realism, differentiation theory, and the war in Ukraine
Kleinschmidt J.
Civil society
Empirical analysis
Political conflict
Political power
Political theory
War
Russian federation
Ukraine
Conflict
Differentiation theory
Offensive realism
Russia
Ukraine
World society
title_short Offensive realism, differentiation theory, and the war in Ukraine
title_full Offensive realism, differentiation theory, and the war in Ukraine
title_fullStr Offensive realism, differentiation theory, and the war in Ukraine
title_full_unstemmed Offensive realism, differentiation theory, and the war in Ukraine
title_sort Offensive realism, differentiation theory, and the war in Ukraine
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Kleinschmidt J.
author Kleinschmidt J.
author_facet Kleinschmidt J.
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Civil society
Empirical analysis
Political conflict
Political power
Political theory
War
Russian federation
Ukraine
Conflict
Differentiation theory
Offensive realism
Russia
Ukraine
World society
topic Civil society
Empirical analysis
Political conflict
Political power
Political theory
War
Russian federation
Ukraine
Conflict
Differentiation theory
Offensive realism
Russia
Ukraine
World society
description In this article, I shall demonstrate that several of the arguments made in favour of an offensive realist explanation of Russian actions in Ukraine as part of a power balancing process are inconsistent both with available empirical knowledge of the conflict in Ukraine and with the structural logic postulated by offensive realist theory itself. Rather than a conflict about power in a material sense, I will argue that the war in Ukraine is better understood as a conflict about the incompatibility of the Russian state structure to cope with the imperatives of functional differentiation as understood by theories of world society. © 2018, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
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