2023/07/24 by Ian Klinke · 1 voice · 4 citations
Social Sciences · #Global Security and Public Health #Arctic and Russian Policy Studies #Geographies of human-animal interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/tran.12627
openalex publication_date 2023/07/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/23
Abstract This commentary explores the degree to which the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has posed a challenge for political geographers. I reason that while the war has exposed conceptual weaknesses and political blind spots, it has also validated many of the foci with which geographers have approached post‐Cold War European security. By drawing attention to the epistemological and moral problems of current NATO scepticism, I argue that tactics of counter‐mapping and whataboutery need to be carried out with the necessary care for the historical and political context.