2023/09/09 by Nick Megoran · 1 voice
Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Arctic and Russian Policy Studies #Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones #Soviet and Russian History
paper · doi:10.1111/tran.12626
openalex publication_date 2023/09/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/23
Abstract In this commentary I respond to the editor's dual invitation to offer critical geographical understandings of the Ukraine war and to reply to Ian Klinke's (Klinke, 2023) specific criticisms of my arguments about the role of NATO expansion in it. I suggest that first, we should recognise that geographical factors are crucial in understanding why the war occurred. Second, we need to theorise how geographical imaginations influence international relations and have done here in the form of NATO expansion. Finally, we should explore counter‐mappings of European futures in ways that could help us move towards a resolution of this terrible war.