1st Edition
The War in Ukraine and the Changing World Order
Introduction: The Fight for Ukraine and the Shaping of Things to Come Stipe Buzar and Jean-François Caron 1 The rise of militant Kleptocracy Boris Kashnikov 2 Africa-Russia relations in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine Karol Czuba 3 "Empire of lies": Russian contestation of western values and international order Stipe Buzar 4 Navigating the new multipolar world: Strengths and vulnerabilities of the western world Saira Bano 5 Strategy here, strategy there: Who’s afraid of the Russian bear? Jean-François Caron 6 Russia’s war on Ukraine and Chinese and Taiwanese relations in the 21st century: Is conflict with Taiwan inevitable and what can be learned from Moscow’s missteps in Eastern Europe? Jason Lacharite 7 Military aid to Ukraine: Crowdsourcing at its finest Josip Lučev 8 The big game in Southeast Europe: Groupism and anarchy in Russo-Western Relations Davor Boban 9 Russian uses and abuses of Serbia-Kosovo dispute Petar Popović
Biography
Stipe Buzar is an Associate Professor at Libertas International University (LIU) in Zagreb, Croatia.
Jean-François Caron is an Associate Professor at Nazarbayev University, Research Fellow at the University of Opole, and the 2025–26 C. Judson King Endowed Professor at the American University of Armenia.
