"Then What Are We Fighting For": Securitizing Religion in the Ukrainian-Russian Conflict
Journal: Digital Commons - George Fox University (George Fox University)
Year: 2021

With the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, religion has shifted from a sphere of great importance in inter-state relations to the national security domain, where the sides in the conflict perceive religion as potentially posing the utmost threat and have resorted to extraordinary measures to securitize it. The author argues that at the core of the Ukrainian securitizing move was the struggle for the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which allowed weakening Russia's influ