Russia's Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine as an Ethnic Conflict: The Cossack Legacy between Russia and Ukraine
March 24, 2023 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM
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In-person
This is an in-person event that takes place in Room 208N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto.
How can we understand Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine? Which of our pre-existing classifications of war best encapsulates the motives for armed intervention? In this presentation, Dr. Richard Arnold argued that the invasion should be seen as an ethnic war, one in which Ukrainians are fighting for ethnicity whereas the Russians are fighting about ethnicity. One of the most prominent symbols of the shared history between the two countries is the Cossack legacy and the ideas are evaluated against event analysis of developments in each country, focus groups conducted with Ukrainian refugees in Poland, and salience graphs of the Cossack image in the Russian and Ukrainian presses.
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
Arba Bardhi; arba.bardhi@utoronto.ca
Speakers
Richard Arnold
Associate Professor of Political Science, Co-Advisor for International Affairs Major at Muskingum University
Ed Schatz
Director of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Director of the Belt and Road in Global Perspective, Director of Eurasia Initiative, Professor for the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto