Russia's War in Ukraine

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-3-8382-1876-2
Verlag: ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 398 g

Reihe: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Ukraine expert Winfried Schneider-Deters intervenes in the debate on Russia's war against Ukraine with three timely essays, written during the winter of war in Kyiv in 2022 / 2023. He critically discusses the ambivalent reception of Russian aggression not only in German society. Calls by intellectuals to stop arms deliveries and to negotiate and compromise with the aggressor are, in effect, calls for surrender; in the author's view, their signatories are thus making themselves into Putin's "useful idiots." Schneider-Deters points out the parallels between Putin and Hitler and analyzes the Russian "Weimar syndrome" after the collapse of the Soviet Union as well as the roots of the current, specifically Russian fascism, the "Rushism". He also gives a detailed account of the crimes committed by Russia's armed forces in Ukraine under international law. The International Criminal Court in The Hague does not have jurisdiction over the crime of aggression, the "supreme international crime"; Schneider-Deters discusses the possible steps to create a new international tribunal along the lines of the Nuremberg trials, a "Nuremberg II", in order to be able to hold the aggressor Putin criminally responsible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schneider-Deters, Winfried

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gestwa, Klaus

Umland, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Invasion und Besatzung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Ost-West Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung

Über Autor(innen)

Gestwa, Klaus
Prof. Dr. Klaus Gestwa is the Director of the Institute for Eastern European History and Regional Studies at Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen.

Umland, Andreas
Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Schneider-Deters, Winfried
Winfried Schneider-Deters studied economics at Heidelberg University. Since 2004 he is retired and works as a free lance author in Heidelberg, Germany and Kiev / Kyiv, Ukraine. Previously Schneider-Deters directed national and regional projects of FRIEDRICH EBERT STIFTUNG (FES) in LATIN AMERICA; EAST and CENTRAL ASIA, and in the SOUTH CAUCASUS. From 1996 to 2000 he was head of the cooperation office of the FES in Kyiv, Ukraine. His previous books include UKRAINE – POWER VACUUM BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION, BWV, Berlin 2012 and UKRAINE’s FATEFUL YEARS 2013 - 2019, BWV, Berlin 2022. His papers have been published by, among others, OSTEUROPA, NEUE GESELLDSCHAFT, UKRAINE ANALYSEN, THE EUROPEAN and EUROMAIDAN PRESS.

Winfried Schneider-Deters studied economics at Heidelberg University. Since 2004 he is retired and works as a free lance author in Heidelberg, Germany and Kiev / Kyiv, Ukraine. Previously Schneider-Deters directed national and regional projects of FRIEDRICH EBERT STIFTUNG (FES) in LATIN AMERICA; EAST and CENTRAL ASIA, and in the SOUTH CAUCASUS. From 1996 to 2000 he was head of the cooperation office of the FES in Kyiv, Ukraine. His previous books include UKRAINE – POWER VACUUM BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION, BWV, Berlin 2012 and UKRAINE’s FATEFUL YEARS 2013 - 2019, BWV, Berlin 2022. His papers have been published by, among others, OSTEUROPA, NEUE GESELLDSCHAFT, UKRAINE ANALYSEN, THE EUROPEAN and EUROMAIDAN PRESS.