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On 17 July 2014 Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down amid unrest in Ukraine, a conflict that led to a NATO-Russia standoff and the onset of a new period of East-West confrontation.
This is the first scholarly work on the Ukrainian unrest and the tragic downing of MH17. It offers an analysis that challenges the Western consensus surrounding these events, emphasising the geopolitical and economic context of the West's standoff with Russia, the BRICS bloc, and the struggles over the EU's energy supply.
Based on previously unpublished government and NATO documents as well as a wide array of sources this book offers an analysis of global political economy and contemporary debates about Russia and East-West relations.
List of contents
Introduction: A civilian airliner in the firing line
1. The global gamble of a new Cold War
2. Divided Ukraine
3. From the Maidan revolt to regime change
4. The civil war and the MH17 disaster
5. Aftermath: A failed state on NATO's frontline
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Kees van der Pijl is fellow of the Centre for Global Political Economy and professor emeritus in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. He is best known for his writings on transnational class formation, notably
The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class (1984, new edition 2012);
Transnational Classes and International Relations (1998);
Global Rivalries from the Cold War to Iraq (2006), and others. From 2006 to 2009 he held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. In 2008 he was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize for
Nomads, Empires, States (2007), the first volume of a trilogy entitled
Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy, of which vols. II and III appeared in 2010 and 2014.
Summary
A revealing investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 amid the Ukrainian conflict emphasising the geopolitical and economic context of the West's standoff with Russia, the BRICS bloc, and the struggles over the EU's energy supply. -- .
