Rainer M. Franco: The Many Ukrainian Crises: Agency, Demography & Local Order | IAPSS World Congress

The Russian intervention in Ukraine has revealed the many discourses on the very ethos of Ukraine's existence from both sides. Concentrating solely on adjectivizing Vladimir Putin's mind, claiming to "know" what the Russian president thinks and wants, obscures more than what it explains. This line of thought leaves out the agency of several actors inside Ukraine, their goals and interests, and does not answer the question about why the invasion took place in February 2022 and not before. I offer a more nuanced approach to the antecedents of the conflict, based on the demographic, political, economic, and cultural realities on the ground in the last three decades of independent Ukrainian life.
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