February 2022: Russia And Europe’s Challenging Time The Practice Approach
Journal: Asia-Pacific Journal of EU Studies
Year: 2023

Putin’s Russia’s contentious position, that culminated in the incursion into Ukraine in 2022, creates a puzzling situation within international affairs and European politics. Informed by Bourdieu’s sociology and Neumann and Pouliot’s study of practice theory and approach, this empirical investigation explores whether and how the ‘lack of fit between practices and the field’ where they are performed has important consequences that hamper security. It deals with practices originated by Moscow, at