This book explores the continuing conflict in Ukraine, tracing its origins and evaluating the causes that have contributed to it. It has already been discussed how the two sides have engaged in political posturing, accusations, mounting penalties, and growing threats. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has deteriorated as a result of three underlying factors: the security quandary, the influence of democratization on geopolitics, and the conflicting aims of a post-Cold War Europe. The book also demonstrates how this war fits into bigger patterns of current international warfare, and should so appeal to anybody who wants to understand the core cause of the conflict, Russia's ties with the West, and geopolitics in general. If you want to understand the current Russia-Ukraine conflict, this is the book for you.