Reflections for the interdisciplinary study of the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022

Reflexiones para el estudio interdisciplinario de la invasión de Ucrania por parte de la Federación Rusa en 2022

• Jorge J. Villasmil-Espinoza Universidad del Zulia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0791-3331
• Yevhen Leheza University of Customs and Finance, Dnipro, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9134-8499
• Liudmyla Holovii National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5537-0944

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4073.00

Keywords: Russian Federation invasion of Ukraine in 2022, war crimes, human rights violations, interdisciplinary study of war, war in Ukraine

Abstract

The Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 is an unusual geopolitical event that puts the security of Western Europe at risk and, at the same time, erodes the norms of international law that regulate, at least in theory, relations between civilized countries. Indeed, it is a tragic event that has cost the lives of thousands of civilians who have been victims of war crimes and serious violations of their fundamental rights. In this sense, the objective of this editorial is twofold, on the one hand, to present volume 40, number 73 of Political Questions and, on the other, to briefly explain the causes and geopolitical consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is concluded that the invasion of Putin’s Russia in Ukraine can trigger a prolonged and extensive conflict that can even confront NATO directly with Russia. Ideologically, it is a conflict that means a clash between different political models such as the liberal democracies of the West (ensuring human rights, adherence to the principles of international law - the sovereignty of the country, freedom of speech, free movement around the world, etc.) with the militarist and neoconservative authoritarianism of tsarist roots.

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