Ukraine, Multipolarity and the Crisis of Grand Strategies

Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has unleashed the largest and most lethal war on European continent since 1945. Vladimir Putin Russian government bear responsibility for its terrible humanitarian consequences. However, explanations deriving from domestic political dynamics or Putin’s imperial nostalgia do not provide a comprehensive understanding crisis that led to war. Situating ensuing within broader historical context post-Cold War relations, we argue in two main sources. The first is longstanding Anglo-American grand strategy NATO consolidation as vehicle economic domination Europe. second Russia. Unable accommodate itself an equal basis new U.S.-led global capitalist order, Russia gradually adopted geopolitical nationalistic agenda confrontation response NATO’s seemingly inexorable eastward advance, increasing participation ‘out area’ activities, United States’ invasions Serbia, Iraq, Libya. collision these strategies triggered simultaneously struggle Ukrainian sovereignty independence U.S.-Russia proxy