The Discontents of Ukraine's Civilizational Wartime Diplomacy in the Global South

Abstract

This is an ideational polemic essay on Ukraine's wartime diplomacy in the Global South, with a focus on Asia. The main argument made is that Ukraine's civilizational approach to wartime diplomacy for rallying international support in the Global South has been self-constraining and is bound to be self-defeating when it comes to achieving greater respectability and broader appeal, support, and a sense of a shared struggle among governments and peoples across the Global South in the long term.