title: Back to the Roots? The War in Ukraine and Grand Theories in International Relations
abstract: Abstract In the wake of the Cold War’s conclusion, grand theories faded out of scholarly debates on International Relations. A more eclectic attitude took hold of the discipline—the celebration of mid-level theories that hybridized themes and variables from different theoretical traditions, shedding light on specific phenomena. History had ended, and so had the clashes between different views as to what its basic mechanisms were. This chapter asks whether the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine by 