FOREIGN INVASIONS AND GLOBAL REACTIONS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN INVASION OF PRE-COLONIAL AFRICAN POLITIES AND RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE

Abstract: Modern human history is replete with invasions of states by states, and such invasions have elicited diverse global reactions. From the 15^th century upward for instance, Europeans invaded precolonial African polities in their quest to chiefly satisfy their economic appetite. In 2022, Russia invaded a fellow European country – Ukraine, in her quest to wade off NATO expansionism and invariably, to promote her expansionist policy. While the latter has elicited global condemnations and severe sanctions on Russia and Russians; the former received justifications mainly from renowned and reverend European erudite scholars. As a theory in international relations, Realism views these invasions and the attendant discrepancies in global responses as inevitable due to the selfish nature of nation-states. To right historical wrongs and heal lingering historical wounds, this paper recommends that European countries who invaded, destroyed, and pillaged precolonial African states should, as a matter of urgency, establish an Afro-Euro Commission with special trust fund, aimed at reconciliation, restitution, reconstruction and development of affected African territories.

Keywords: War, Russian Invasion, European Invasion, Pre-colonial African Polities.

Title: FOREIGN INVASIONS AND GLOBAL REACTIONS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN INVASION OF PRE-COLONIAL AFRICAN POLITIES AND RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE

Author: ODEMWINGIE, OSAHON, EGHAREVBA, EDEBIRI STANLEY, OSAYANDE, OSAZE SUNNY

International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research 

ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)

Vol. 11, Issue 3, July 2023 - September 2023

Page No: 57-65

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Published Date: 02-August-2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8207851

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