Book Review: Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian invasion of 2022 by Dominique Arel and Jesse Driscoll
Eduard Ionut Apetrei
Vol 11, Issue 1 · pp. 141–150 · 2025 · DOI https://doi.org/10.63961/2025.204
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Book Review of Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian invasion of 2022 by Dominique Arel and Jesse Driscoll
Cambridge University Press, 2023
'Ukraine's Unnamed War: Before the Russian invasion of 2022 by Dominique Arel and Jesse Driscoll (2023) is a very concise book that aims to illustrate the most important events in the recently troubled history of Ukraine. By taking a thorough geo-political journey between 2013 and 2022, the authors aim to set up the context that ultimately led to Russia’s full-scale invasion. Consequently, the book manages to address the different complexities of Ukraine’s geo-politics by successfully integrating analytical discussions about identity issues, power dynamics and hybrid warfare.'
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