The Ukrainian War and Economic Liberalism
Journal: Bulgarian Journal of International Economics and Politics
Year: 2022

The paper tries to investigate the reasons of the Russia-Ukrainian war from the point of view of economic and political liberalism and pacifism. Back in 1909, Norman Angel posed the arguments about the futility of aggressive wars. Nowadays his reasoning seems still impressive. Russia cannot gain anything from this war in economic terms. The Russian World concept is behind the decision of the war outbreak. Ironically, Russia can be reintegrated into the world economy only if it accepts the refute