Neuere Literatur zu dem Thema

Der Verweis auf Sachs als "kompetenter Historiker" ist nicht hilfreich. Sofern Interesse vorhanden ist für ein vertiefendes Lesen:

Zur Entwicklung in Russland u.a. eine Auswahl seriöser Historiker:
Hopf, Ted (2002): Social construction of international politics. Identities & foreign policies, Moscow, 1955 and 1999. 1. Aufl. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Kanet, Roger E. (Hg.) (2019): Routledge Handbook of Russian Security. London, New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
Larson, Deborah Welch; Shevchenko, Alexei (2019): Quest for status. Chinese and Russian foreign policy. New Haven, London: Yale University Press.
Sakwa, Richard (2021): Russian politics and society. Fifth edition. Abingdon Oxon, New York NY: Routledge.
Tsygankov, Andrej P. (2016): Russia's foreign policy. Change and continuity in national identity. Fourth edition. Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Rowman & Littlefield.

Und zur Ukraine im speziellen:
Averre, Derek; Wolczuk; Kataryna (Hg.) (2019): The Ukraine Conflict. Security, identity and politics in the wider europe. London: Routledge
Charap, Samuel; Colton, Timothy J. (2018): Everyone loses. The Ukraine crisis and the ruinous contest for post-Soviet Eurasia. 1st. London: Routledge
Plokhy, Serhii; Lister, Ralph (2022): The gates of Europe. A history of Ukraine. Revised edition ; Unabridged. New York, Hachette Audio.
Rose, Gideon (Hg.) (2014): Crisis in Ukraine. New York, N. Y.: Foreign Affairs (Foreign Affairs special collection).
Sakwa, Richard (2022): Frontline Ukraine. Crisis in the borderlands. New edition. London: I.B. Tauris.
Zubok, Vladislav (2022): No One Would Win a Long War in Ukraine. The West Must Avoid the Mistakes of World War I. In: Foreign Affairs Magazine, 21.12.2022.