title: The Imperial Ambitions of the Great Powers: Explaining the War in Ukraine from the Perspective of Global Justice
abstract: The position of Russian President Vladimir Putin in starting the war in Ukraine proceeds from political realism or the imperial ambition of global powers. The propensity for conflict governs the global political order. President Putin thinks that the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an existential threat as far as Russia is concerned. In the absence of a universal standard of justice in the world, Russia thinks that it was justifiable to invade Ukraine. NATO Secretary Jens 
journal: Indonesian Journal of Political Studies (IJPS)