Benesch hubristically wandered far out of his wheelhouse here: https://medium.com/@abenesch1982/on-conflict-and-conflict-resolution-55dbbc7823db . You'd be better off reading Immanuel Wallerstein to explain Russia as a rogue semi-peripheral landed colonial empire that subsists geopolitically on disruption and instability. When Obama said Putin was the sullen disruptive kid at the back of the class, he was speaking an historically based geopolitical truth.

The Anglosphere is the core. Here's why: https://medium.com/illumination/how-the-dutch-invented-the-modern-world-895ae234fd44

Thanks for reading.