1st Edition
Russian Discourses and Practices of Intervention From Libya to Ukraine
By Kalina Zhekova
Copyright 2027
258 Pages
by
Routledge
This book investigates Russian approaches to military intervention, war and armed conflict in relation to the wars in Libya, Syria, and Ukraine. It provides a comprehensive examination of Russian resistance to, and initiation of armed interventions as enabled by the collective, rather than Kremlin-centric, production of danger and Otherness.
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Acknowledgements
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Transliteration and translation
1 Introduction
2 Theory and methodology: the discursive production of Russian foreign policy
3 Libya, 2011: from constructive abstention to ‘lesson’ learnt
4 Syria, 2011-2014: Russian diplomatic resistance
5 Syria, 2015-2018: Russia intervenes
6 Ukraine, 2014: rewriting borders, escalating threats
7 Ukraine 2022-2023: Russia’s Proxy War discourse
8 Conclusions and implications
Selected Bibliography
Index
Biography
Kalina Zhekova is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science, University College London.
