UKRAYNA-RUSYA SAVAŞI’NI REALİST VE SOSYAL İNŞACI (KONSTRÜKTİVİST) TEORİK ÇERÇEVEDE ANALİZ ETMEK
ANALYSING THE UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR IN A REALIST AND CONSTRUCTIVIST THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

Summary/Abstract: This study, which investigates the causes of the war through its historical roots that emerged with the Russian invasion of Ukraine has benefited from two important theoretical perspectives of international politics. Applying Neorealist and Social Constructivist theories, this article explains the causes of war with different theories that reach contradictory results. This study showing the differences and tensions of the historical narratives of Ukraine and Russia, demostrates how nationalist discourses create different histories. Two different nationalist historical discourses developed in contrast to each other are one of the historical structural conditions that created the war. This article states that from a Neorealist perspective, the provocations of NATO and Western countries dragged Russia into the war. On the other hand, this study emphasizes that from a Constructivist perspective, the Putin administration chose the war alternative through a subjective security perception and that the administration is responsible for the outbreak of the war in the context of the agency. This study, which investigates the causes of war from two different perspectives focused on social structure and agency, offers a unique perspective as it attempts to understand both dimensions of social reality.

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