The effects of wars: Lessons from the war in Ukraine

Bocquillon, Pierre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7384-4384, Doyle, Suzanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4803-4782, James, Toby S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5826-5461, Mason, Ra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4950-9516, Park, Soul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6692-9080 and Rosina, Matilde (2024) The effects of wars: Lessons from the war in Ukraine. Policy Studies, 45 (3-4). pp. 261-281. ISSN 0144-2872

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Abstract

War remains a central feature of global politics and has been a core focus for politics and international relations, history, economics, sociology as well as other cognate disciplines. The analysis of the effects of war has, however, tended to be compartmentalised by sub-disciplines. This article proposes a heuristic framework to map the effects of war in terms of ripple and backwash across a range of interconnected layers of societies. Through this framework, the article then introduces a set of empirically rich and theoretically informed studies from across multiple disciplines which examine the first consequences of the war in Ukraine. Taken together, these studies show that the war has had deep and complex effects affecting human life; human development; economies; values and attitudes; policy and governance; and power distribution and relations around the world. Although broader international public interest in the war may have waned within weeks of the invasion, the effects of the conflict have been deep and continued in many areas, but also differentiated across space and time. Traditional public policy concepts used to frame the effects of “external shocks” such as punctuated equilibrium and critical junctures may overlook such deep-seated and diverse effects, warranting the multidisciplinary lenses used in this volume.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: conflict,international relations,policy change,policy continuity,political science,ukraine,war,political science and international relations,sdg 16 - peace, justice and strong institutions ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3320
Faculty \ School: University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Policy & Politics
University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Critical Global Politics
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Centre for Japanese Studies
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Date Deposited: 30 Apr 2024 11:30
Last Modified: 19 Oct 2024 00:04
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/95045
DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2024.2334458

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