Analyzing the Russia-Ukraine War Based on the Structural Determination Model of the International System

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دانشگاه لرستان - دانشکده ادبیات- گروه علوم سیاسی و حقوق

10.22080/jpir.2025.29347.1433

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As one of the most important events, the war between Russia and Ukraine has affected not only Europe but also the whole world. The multiple domestic, regional and international factors contributed to the outbreak of this war, that examining them requires a comprehensive study. The main question of the article is how has the international system affected the Russia-Ukraine war? In this article, by using the theoretical framework of aggressive and structural realism and the level of macro analysis, we proposed the hypothesis that Russia's war against Ukraine has been a result of the structural pressures of the international system on two countries and relationship between them. We analyzed, by using historical-analytical method, developments in the relationship between Moscow and Kiev since the independence of Ukraine. Therefore, from the perspective of the framework of aggressive realism, the structural pressures of the international system have forced war between Russia and Ukraine on them. Although the decision for war is made by the leaders of the countries, but this decision is made in a situation that created by the international system;. The structural pressures of the international system since 1994 in the form of Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament, the Orange and Euromaidan revolutions in Ukraine, and Ukraine’s NATO membership plan have led the relations between Kiev and Moscow to a military confrontation, and it is perhaps fair to say that the international system was the most important factor in the war between the two countries.

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