RUSSIA. THE BACKGROUND OF THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE
Journal: Theoretical and Practical Research in Economic Fields
Year: 2022

This paper presents an interpretation of the underlying dynamics of global political economy, which has led to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022. It thus is an alternative to interpretations that view the individual psychological traits of Vladimir Putin as the driving force behind this event. To enable a more sensible account, it turns out to be necessary to go back in the history of the conflict between Russia and NATO to the times of the Cold War. Briefly, two important field