Old or New? Russia’s War against Ukraine and Post-Soviet identity politics
Journal: Sociology Theory Methods Marketing
Year: 2025

The New wars paradigm was an important heuristic tool for understanding the organised violence that occurred in most of Eastern Europe following the collapse of communism in 1989. This approach was particularly useful for shedding light on the underlying goals of wars, the new combatants involved and how conflict is funded in a globalised world. While the violence used to annex Crimea and seize Luhansk and Donetsk from Ukraine in 2014 and afterwards seemed largely in line with the tenets of the