مجلة الرسالة للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانية
Volume 6, Numéro 2, Pages 91-102
2021-07-20

The Ukraine Crisis And The Resumption Of U.s-russian Rivalry: Obama's Policies Between Threat Perception And New Containment

Authors : Hafdallah Sabri . Barkaoui Miloud .

Abstract

The end of the Cold War triggered a panoply of reflections on the nature of the world, especially on the European security architecture. In early 2014, cataclysmic events in the Ukraine ushered in a period of great power rivalry between Washington and Moscow reminiscent of 19th Century European power-grab. By deploying an offensive realist approach, this article ponders the turbulent events that erupted in Kiev and the Russian intervention in the country during the Obama presidency. By using qualitative content analysis, this paper seeks to place the Ukrainian issue into an international dimension of post-Cold War power dynamics between Washington and Russia. Indeed, the inexorable eastward expansion of NATO, the U.S. missile defense installations in eastern-Europe, the unsuccessful policy of rapprochement and the Russian denial of Ukraine's occidental orientation are key factors in further fomenting the ongoing impasse

Keywords

Neo-Realism Threat Perception; Ukraine Crisis