Reinterpreting the Ukraine Conflict: The Drive for Ethnic Subordination and Existential Enemies

Robert H. Wade

Challenge, 2015, vol. 58, issue 4, 361-371

Abstract: The Ukraine crisis is generally presented in the West as a war between Russia and Ukraine. It is more accurately a civil war with international intervention. In fact, the U.S. government helped to carry out the successful overthrow of the legitimately elected—but Russia-friendly—Ukrainian government. It and other western governments see the crisis as a way to fortify the fragile western alliance under U.S. leadership by putting into action the oldest generalization in sociology: a common external enemy induces internal cooperation. We should be debating whether the U.S. and other western governments have the right to overthrow a legitimately elected government and then help the new government it helped replace subordinate a large ethnic minority.

Date: 2015
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