Geographical Contributions to Understanding and Resolving the Russo- Ukraine Conflict
Journal: Geopolítica(s) Revista de estudios sobre espacio y poder
Year: 2022

The war in Ukraine poses an exceptionally dangerous risk of major escalation by design, accident or miscalculation. However, the causes and drivers of the war are far from exceptional, being struggles over how to imagine, name, organize, and control space at local, regional (subnational), national and international scales. Advocating a geography that is “for peace,” this article uses a transscalar conception of how conflict and peace are interrelated within states and internationally. Analyzing