Individual self-determination vs. Ukrainian or Russian nationalism
Journal: REVISTA PROCESOS DE MERCADO
Year: 2021

Russian president Vladimir Putin’s power grab and annexation of the Crimea has filled global news headlines as he attempts to reverse what he has called the «greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth Century» – the collapse of the Soviet Union. But it needs to be remembered that this conflict has its deeper roots in two ideas that have plagued the world for over two centuries: nationalism and government interventionism into economic affairs.&#x0D; In the early years of the nineteenth ce