TY  - BOOK
AU  - PYNNONIEMI Katri
AU  - PARPPEI Kati
TI  - Understanding Russia’s war against Ukraine: : political, eschatological and cataclysmic dimensions 
PY  - 2024///
KW  - UKRAINE
KW  - RUSSIA
KW  - WAR
KW  - RUSSIAN MILITARY SCIENCE
N2  - We apply Anatol Rapoport’s typology of war to reconstruct how Russian research communities explain war against Ukraine. We argue that the initial three-dimensional framework can be divided into two explanatory models: military-political and eschatological-cataclysmic. The first model explains the war with reference to classical calculus about military threats and national interests. The second model interprets war as an act of creating a new world order and as a struggle existential for Russia. These two models are not mutually exclusive, yet they illuminate evolution of meanings given for the war during the first two years of Russia’s large-scale invasion against Ukraine
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402390.2024.2379395
ER  -