Abstract:
The International Political System since the beginning of the 20th century has been bedeviled by conflicts and wars. There have been two global wars, 1st and 2nd world wars, the Vietnam war, the war in Afghanistan, the Arab- Israeli war, the cold war, desert storm, the Iraqi war, the Libyan war, the Syrian war and other numerous conflicts that space and time might not permit to dwell on here. However, in all these, the Russian-Ukraine conflict, an on-going conflict stands out in the world today. It stands out because of its genesis; the world saw it coming and pretended that it will never come to be and that the consequences could be ignored. From the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in the late 1990s, Russia that emerged in the place of the former, has never hidden it's distrust of United States of America and it's NATO allies. Russia vehemently continuously opposed NATO's expansionist incursion into Eastern Europe more especially into the former Soviet bloc but their protests were ignored by the United States of America and NATO. This paper x-rays this conflict using the secondary data and trending analysis to unravel the genesis and motives of the principal actors, NATO, Russia and Ukraine. Theories of the causes of war in the International Political System are analyzed and attempts to predict the likely scenario that will emerge at the end made. Of-course, the geopolitics of the International Political System will never be the same again. At the end recommendations are made, that if adhered to, will usher in relative peace to the international political arena.
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