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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Civil society
Empirical analysis
Political conflict
Political power
Political theory
War
Russian federation
Ukraine
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Differentiation theory
Offensive realism
Russia
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title Offensive realism, differentiation theory, and the war in Ukraine
spellingShingle Offensive realism, differentiation theory, and the war in Ukraine
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.subject.keyword.spa.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
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