The Clash of Three Bipolar Narratives About the War in Ukraine

The framework of this chapter results from RQ 5 of his book: why did Putin and his followers take the decision to invade Ukraine in 2022, and why are we witnessing such a high level of negative peace and militarisation in the relations between NATO and the RF? This concretely means that in this chapter, most of the attention will be paid to an analysis of the war in Ukraine in light of clashes between the three bipolar narratives about the relations between the process of NATO expansion and the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. This analysis represents the largest and most important part of this chapter, even if it also offers a nonmilitary analysis. The analysis of these bipolar narratives is conceived as the main added value of this chapter.