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5. Ukraine: Moving Borders Changing Orders?

Author : Malte Brosig

Published in: The Role of BRICS in Large-Scale Armed Conflict

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The war in the Ukraine put the BRICS grouping in a delicate situation as one of its members is directly involved in armed conflict. While BRICS countries are known for favoring uncompromised sovereignty and non-intervention, the Russian occupation of Crimea and tacit support for armed groups in Eastern Ukraine are hardly compatible with the group’s main principles. BRICS displayed group solidarity by not opposing Russian action in the Ukraine but also by not endorsing it. With regard to the Ukrainian crisis BRICS treated the issue as being of vital interest to one of its members against which no criticism was expected to be voiced. BRICS provided declaratory support for multilateral conflict resolution by supporting the Minsk protocols.

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Title: Ukraine: Moving Borders Changing Orders?
Author: Malte Brosig
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: The Role of BRICS in Large-Scale Armed Conflict
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-18536-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-18537-4

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18537-4_5