After the War?: How the Ukraine War Challenges Political Theories

Published by De Gruyter 2024

After the War?

How the Ukraine War Challenges Political Theories

Edited by: Anton Leist and Rolf Zimmermann

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111183343

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About this book

Russia’s war against Ukraine has grave consequences in several political categories. These include: a reassessment of the school of ‘political realism’, one of whose proponents claims to have predicted the war. Was the West partly ‘responsible’ for the war? Second, to what extent does the war of aggression, as an undeniable violation of law, damage the status of international law and justice? Third, the war is embedded in political developments that stretch back a century. It is examined in its context within American foreign policy since the Wilsonian peace programme, in relation to the dangerous reluctance of the EU to pursue a decisive geopolitical policy towards Russia, and interpreted in the light of Stalinist echoes within Russian politics.

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Anton Leist, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Rolf Zimmermann, University of Konstanz, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introductory Essay Still in the Face of War: On Framing Political Realities Anew Anton Leist and Rolf Zimmermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Different Perspectives on Realism
Realism, Ethics, and the Ukraine War Richard Sakwa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Realism, Responsibility, and the War Harald Edinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Looking at the War Realistically Anton Leist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Part II: International Law and International Relations
The End of Which War? Uncomfortable Legal and Historical Comparisons and Diagnoses Bill Bowring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Can We (Still) Trust International Law? A Defense against Old and New ‘Realisms’ in Light of the Russian Aggression against Ukraine Hendrik Simon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Part III: War, Western Democracy, World Scenario
Wilsonianism, Realism, and the Ukrainian War Bruce Kuklick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Carl Schmitt in Brussels: The Russian War against Ukraine and the Return of Geopolitics Stefan Auer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Power Politics for Western Democracy: The War against Ukraine in the Context of Epochal Conflicts Rolf Zimmermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: International relations theorists (IR), international lawyers, political theorists, philosophers
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 282
Keywords: political realism; jus ad bellum; Russia

eBook

Published: February 19, 2024
ISBN: 9783111183343

Hardcover

Published: February 19, 2024
ISBN: 9783111182131