{"product_id":"9781529242799","title":"Sovereignty, Patrimony and International Law : Russia's Attack on Ukraine by Kataryna Wolczuk","description":"This book offers a concise yet in-depth analysis of Russia's complex-though consistent-strategic approach to Ukraine over the past 30 years, placing it within a broad historical and geopolitical context.   It reveals how Russia's ambitions toward Ukraine have been deeply rooted in a patrimonial paradigm-marked by a long-standing tradition of instrumentalizing sovereignty and (international) law. The book explores Moscow's use of `legal smokescreens' to gradually erode Ukraine's sovereignty. It argues that the full-scale invasion was the culmination of Russia's failure to assert its patrimonial claims through legal and diplomatic means over 1991-2021, offering an anatomy of that failure.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368994943349,"sku":"9781529242799","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781529242799","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}