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During the life of the Soviet Union, when Ukraine was part of the USSR, suspicion of Ukrainian nationalism was enduring, if not pervasive and endemic. The Ukraine crisis and the failure of immediate deterrence One might reasonably argue that the failure of general deterrence on the part of the US was so serious that little it could have attempted would have succeeded in putting a compensatory form of immediate deterrence into place. Keywords: deterrence; Ukraine; Russia; diplomacy EN deterrence Ukraine Russia diplomacy 407 414 8 10/17/23 20230801 NES 230801 Introduction Russia's 2014 seizure of the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine highlighted the limitations of a "rules-based" international order in protecting a state's territorial integrity in the face of threats to international peace and security resulting from the actions of a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. The 1994 I Memorandum on Security Assurances in Connection with Ukraine's Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons i (the "Budapest Memorandum") saw Russia reaffirm its commitment to 'respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine'. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents the discussion on structural distortions in knowledge production on Ukraine arguing for the need to critically addressing the underlying colonial and Cold War legacies. Topics include Ukraine providing useful insights, in particular, into popular agency, grassroots mobilisation, and extra-institutional democratisation; and revealing the extent where the field beng overfocused on Russia to the neglect of studies of the other countries in the neighbourhood.