1st Edition

Russia’s War on Ukraine and the Crisis of World Order A Global Reader

512 Pages
by Central European University Press

Russia’s war on Ukraine has been closely watched and widely debated worldwide. These discussions extend beyond the war itself to encompass its implications for the world order and the future of globalisation. This reader documents that debate by bringing together articles from all regions of the world published in newspapers, journals, magazines, and blogs between Russia’s full-scale invasion of... Read more

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1: International Organisations and International Law

Chapter 2: Postcolonial and Decolonial Perspectives

Chapter 3: Rearmament, Neutrality, and Non-Alignment

Chapter 4: Religious Solidarities

Chapter 5: Economy and Trading Routes

Chapter 6: Ecology

Epilogue I: Ukraine and Gaza—Relations and Comparison

Epilogue II: US Presidential Elections 2025—Global Consequences

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

About the Editors

Index

Biography

Dennis Dierks is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Eastern and Southeastern European History at Leipzig University.

Katja Castryck-Naumann is a senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) and has headed the research training group 'Global Armenia/ns: Entalngeld Histories of Central and Eastern Europe and teh Caucasus' since 2025.

Lena Dallywater is a researcher and academic coordinator in teh Cluster of Excellence Imaginamics at the University of Jena and was coordinator of the Leibniz ScienceCampus 'Eastern Europe - Global Area' (EEGA) from 2016 to 2025.

Stefan Rohdewald has held the Chair of Eastern and Southeastern European History at Leipzig University since 2020.