EXPLANATORY POTENTIAL OF THE POSTCOLONIAL APPROACH FOR UNDERSTANDINGTHE RUSSIA–UKRAINE WAR
Journal: Topos
Year: 2024

The escalation of the Russia–Ukraine confrontation into a fullscale war in 2022 einforced questions about the deficiencies of the mainstream IR theoretical paradigms in exploring and explaining the development in Eastern Europe. In this article, we examine the explanatory potential that the postcolonial approach in IR can contribute to elucidating Russia’s aggressive behaviour and, no less importantly, Ukraine’s desperate resistance to the invasion. This includes examining the coloniser–colonise