Singh, Sukhsand  <br/><br/>
Raging silk route: A broader perspective of the Ukrainian crisis 

 - IIPA Digest: Building capacity for governance   
 - 4(1), Jan-Mar, 2022: p.24-27 
<br/><br/> The current Russian war to occupy Ukraine reminds us of the German occupation of Czechoslovakia and Poland and how it unfurled the Second World War. No wonder Nations today and their people are condemning such an advance that might lead us to the next Big War. Among such speculations one asks why on Earth is Russia doing this? You can Google the political, historical, economic or regional reasons as a topic for your next conversation, but what I am essentially concerned with is – Is there any pattern? Studying world history for quite some time makes it easy to categorize the reasons for the wars in various dimensions, but at the same time it also reveals a sense of similarity in those reasons. Let us turn our attention to the most dynamic continent of the century, i.e. Asia.- Reproduced