Making sense of the Ukraine war: Geographers should not be afraid of geography

IF 3.3 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Pub Date : 2023-09-09 DOI:10.1111/tran.12626

Nick Megoran

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Abstract

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.

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乌克兰战争的意义:地理学家不应该害怕地理

在这篇评论中，我回应了编辑的双重邀请，即对乌克兰战争提供批判性的地理理解，并回复伊恩·克林克(Klinke, 2023)对我关于北约扩张在其中的作用的论点的具体批评。我建议，首先，我们应该认识到，地理因素对于理解战争发生的原因至关重要。其次，我们需要对地理想象如何影响国际关系进行理论化，这一点在北约东扩中已经体现出来。最后，我们应该探索欧洲未来的反向映射，以帮助我们走向这场可怕战争的解决方案。

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