[PDF] Exploring The Russo Ukrainian Crisis And Its Impact On African Countries eBook

Author : King Carl Tornam Duho
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File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 2022
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This study examines the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on African countries with specific focus on the regional economic communities. The study used a timeline analysis covering the major events that preceded and happened during the course of the conflict. This required reference to various scholarly and media reports to provide a vivid analysis of the events and the implications for the world at large and Africa in particular. The impact of the crisis has been analysed by exploring the eight (8) unique regional economic communities in Africa. First, the study provides a background to the conflict and an extensive timeline of key events worth considering. The study also provides a framework for the impact of the crisis on food policy and energy policy with the resultant economic implications like inflationary pressures. The study pointed out how the war affects trade and the implications for international diplomacy with Russia. Despite the overall negative effect of the Russia-Ukraine war on the continent, the unique structural characteristics of each of the eight (8) blocs reveal differing regional and country-level exposures to the impact of the war amid the ravaging effects of the COVID-19 pandemic which together are worsening an already bad situation in the specific regional blocs. The adverse conditions experienced across the continent's 8 blocs are hugely skewed towards an external shock (Russia-Ukraine war). Nonetheless, it will be disastrous for African governments to adopt a 'wait-and-see approach' to things, supposing that these conditions will self-correct eventually, should the Russia-Ukraine war de-escalate. The study provides practical implications for policymakers, captains of industry and researchers in Africa. The study also reveals how critical investments in the areas of food policy and the energy sector will be paramount to African self-reliance in a complex global geopolitical context.

Author : Tabe Bergman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1040051537

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This volume examines the global media coverage of the armed conflict in Ukraine, focusing on the marginalization of dissident perspectives in the West and the information quality and diversity on social media. Along with presenting original, empirical studies on how mainstream media in countries as diverse as Israel, the Czech Republic, Ghana, and the Netherlands have covered the conflict between NATO and Russia since 2022, this book sheds light on the role of the state and the media in policing the boundaries of permissible thought on the conflict in the West, as well as in Russia and Ukraine. It also delves into the war’s representation on prominent social media platforms. Written by a diverse group of international researchers, this multifaceted volume offers new perspectives and insights on the reporting of the ongoing conflict. It will interest scholars of international communication and media, foreign policy and international politics, war and conflict, content analysis, and journalism.

Author : Wilson, Andrew
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0300212925

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A leading Ukraine specialist and firsthand witness to the 2014 Kiev Uprising analyzes the world’s newest flashpoint The aftereffects of the February 2014 Uprising in Ukraine are still reverberating around the world. The consequences of the popular rebellion and Russian President Putin’s attempt to strangle it remain uncertain. In this book, Andrew Wilson combines a spellbinding, on-the-scene account of the Kiev Uprising with a deeply informed analysis of what precipitated the events, what has developed in subsequent months, and why the story is far from over. Wilson situates Ukraine’s February insurgence within Russia’s expansionist ambitions throughout the previous decade. He reveals how President Putin’s extravagant spending to develop soft power in all parts of Europe was aided by wishful thinking in the EU and American diplomatic inattention, and how Putin’s agenda continues to be widely misunderstood in the West. The author then examines events in the wake of the Uprising—the military coup in Crimea, the election of President Petro Poroshenko, the Malaysia Airlines tragedy, rising tensions among all of Russia's neighbors, both friend and foe, and more. Ukraine Crisis provides an important, accurate record of events that unfolded in Ukraine in 2014. It also rings a clear warning that the unresolved problems of the region have implications well beyond Ukrainian borders.

Author : F. Stephen Larrabee
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833088345

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Discusses the implications of Russia's annexation of Crimea and attempt to destabilize eastern Ukraine for European security and the United States, particularly the U.S. Army.

Author : Paul D'Anieri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009315501

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Fully revised and updated, this book explores the long-term dynamics of international conflict between Ukraine, Russia and the West, revealing the historic background to the invasion of Ukraine.

Author : Steven Pifer
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,89 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0876094272

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This Council Special Report, commissioned by CFR's Center for Preventive Action, takes all these issues into account and examines the many challenges facing Ukraine. The report comprehensively analyzes the country's difficulties, related to both domestic conditions -- for example, fractious politics and deeply divided public opinion -- and foreign policy -- for example, issues related to the Black Sea Fleet and Ukrainian and European dependence on Russia's natural gas. The report then recommends ways for the United States to encourage Ukraine on a path of stability and integration with the West. It proposes measures to bolster high-level dialogue between Washington and Kiev, foster effective governance in Ukraine, and reduce Ukraine's susceptibility to Russian pressure. On the crucial NATO question, the report urges the United States to support continued Ukrainian integration with the alliance, though it recommends waiting to back concrete steps toward membership until Kiev achieves consensus on this point. One need not agree with this judgment to find Pifer's analysis of value. Averting Crisis in Ukraine takes a clear-eyed look at the issues that could cause instability -- or worse -- in Ukraine. But it also recommends practical steps that could increase the prospect that Ukraine will enjoy a prosperous, democratic, and independent future.

Author : Riccardo Alcaro
Publisher : Edizioni Nuova Cultura
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 8868124645

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In light of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and destabilization of Ukraine, West-Russia relations have so dramatically deteriorated that talk of a new Cold War has become routine. NATO’s role in Europe is again in the spotlight, with experts and policymakers pondering whether the Alliance needs to go back to its historical roots and re-calibrate itself as an instrument of defence from and containment of Russia. At the same time, cooperation between Russia and the West has not collapsed altogether coordinate on issues such as Iran’s nuclear programme. Clearly, tensions over Ukraine are so strong that the risk of a breakdown in relations cannot be ruled out. The contributions to this volume, the result of an international conference jointly organized by the Istituto Affari Internazionali and the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings, analyze the dramatic shift in Europe’s strategic context and explore the question of whether Russia and the West can contain tensions, manage competition, and keep cooperating on issues of mutual concern.

Author : Faith Hillis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0801469252

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In Children of Rus’, Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River—which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine—was one of the Russian empire’s last territorial acquisitions, annexed only in the late eighteenth century. Yet over the course of the long nineteenth century, this newly acquired region nearly a thousand miles from Moscow and St. Petersburg generated a powerful Russian nationalist movement. Claiming to restore the ancient customs of the East Slavs, the southwest’s Russian nationalists sought to empower the ordinary Orthodox residents of the borderlands and to diminish the influence of their non-Orthodox minorities. Right-bank Ukraine would seem unlikely terrain to nourish a Russian nationalist imagination. It was among the empire’s most diverse corners, with few of its residents speaking Russian as their native language or identifying with the culture of the Great Russian interior. Nevertheless, as Hillis shows, by the late nineteenth century, Russian nationalists had established a strong foothold in the southwest’s culture and educated society; in the first decade of the twentieth, they secured a leading role in local mass politics. By 1910, with help from sympathetic officials in St. Petersburg, right-bank activists expanded their sights beyond the borderlands, hoping to spread their nationalizing agenda across the empire. Exploring why and how the empire’s southwestern borderlands produced its most organized and politically successful Russian nationalist movement, Hillis puts forth a bold new interpretation of state-society relations under tsarism as she reconstructs the role that a peripheral region played in attempting to define the essential characteristics of the Russian people and their state.

Author : Margarita M. Balmaceda
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 46,94 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 023155219X

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Russia’s use of its vast energy resources for leverage against post-Soviet states such as Ukraine is widely recognized as a threat. Yet we cannot understand this danger without also understanding the opportunity that Russian energy represents. From corruption-related profits to transportation-fee income to subsidized prices, many within these states have benefited by participating in Russian energy exports. To understand Russian energy power in the region, it is necessary to look at the entire value chain—including production, processing, transportation, and marketing—and at the full spectrum of domestic and external actors involved, from Gazprom to regional oligarchs to European Union regulators. This book follows Russia’s three largest fossil-fuel exports—natural gas, oil, and coal—from production in Siberia through transportation via Ukraine to final use in Germany in order to understand the tension between energy as threat and as opportunity. Margarita M. Balmaceda reveals how this dynamic has been a key driver of political development in post-Soviet states in the period between independence in 1991 and Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. She analyzes how the physical characteristics of different types of energy, by shaping how they can be transported, distributed, and even stolen, affect how each is used—not only technically but also politically. Both a geopolitical travelogue of the journey of three fossil fuels across continents and an incisive analysis of technology’s role in fossil-fuel politics and economics, this book offers new ways of thinking about energy in Eurasia and beyond.