The effect of the Ukraine-Russian war on developing countries. A Case study (Ghana)
Hafiz Abdul Hamid Salifu
Essay from the year 2023 in the subject Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 18.00/20.00, University of Ghana, Legon, language: English, abstract: Russian and Ukraine were once part of a federal state in Eastern Europe called the Union of Socialist Union Republic (USSR) or the Soviet Union is short. There have been different conspiracy theories which has been trying to explain the main cause of the conflict between the two countries in question.One of these conspiracies is that, since the breakdown of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine has been an independent sovereign state, hence the latter has been planning to join the international organization called the North Atlantic Trade Organization (NATO) led by the capitalist country which are the United States of American. Historically, during the period of the Soviet Union, there was an ideological (Cold War) between the Soviet Union and American. With this old tension between Russia and the US; Russia sees it as a threat if they allow their neighbors (Ukraine) to join the America led NATO.Another conspiracy theory being used to explain the cause of the war is the motive of Vladimir Putin’s Russia to re-create the fallen Soviet Union. Other literatures also claim that the genesis of the war in question was initiated from the revolution of dignity or the Ukrainian revolution which broke-out in February 2014. From 2014 to 2019, the war was mainly political tensions, naval incidents and cyberwarfare. Within this period, the three main acts of the war did not affect any country on the African continent. The war started yielding effects on the other parts of the world other than the two main actors from 24th February 2022. This was when Russia invaded Ukraine which escalated the war from, cyberwarfare, novel incidents and political tensions to ammunitions welfare. The main effects of the war being it casualties, displacements, economic effects will be elaborated in the body of this paper. The African continent is the second in terms of the land size and population after Asia in both areas. It's about 30.3 million km2 with 1.4 billion people habiting it as of 2021.
