作为帝国间冲突的俄乌战争

The Russia-Ukraine War as an Inter-Imperial Conflict

2022年2月24日,俄罗斯最高领导人宣布对乌克兰发起以“去军事化”和“去纳粹化”为目标的“特别军事行动”,武装冲突持续至今已超过三个月。对这场冲突成因的理解,以及对冲突性质的评判,各界多有争论。在俄罗斯和乌克兰、俄罗斯和西方之间“选边站”的努力之外,我们试图提供另一个评判的思路,尤其通过进入俄罗斯政治精英的认知世界来完成这一目标。

This essay portrays the ongoing Russian military operation in Ukraine as an inter-imperial rivalry between a trans-Atlantic empire and a Eurasian empire that Russia tries to rebuild. Spatially, the Russian state promotes ethno-territorial claims based on revanchist principles in her imperial expansion. Temporal-historically, it makes highly selective use of the Soviet legacy and aims to construct a historical continuity for the “Russian world” based on civilizational claims to justify the military operation. Countering Trans-Atlantic hypocrisy with Russia cynicism, Russia brings about a series of challenges to the international system based on nation-states and international law.