Russia's War on Ukraine and the Crisis of World Order : A Global Reader / Dennis Dierks, Katja Castryck-Naumann, Lena Dallywater, Stefan Rohdewald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dierks, Dennis, editor.

Castryck-Naumann, Katja, editor.

Dallywater, Lena, editor.

Rohdewald, Stefan, editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Budapest New York Central European University Press, [2026]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 Ukraine in 2022 and Donald Trump's election victory in 2024. The collection includes texts originally written in English as well as translations from Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. It offers reflections on international law and international organisations; postcolonial and decolonial critiques of power; rearmament, neutrality, and non-alignment; transregional religious solidarities; and the economic and environmental consequences of the war. As part of the series GWZO Studies on Central and Eastern Europe: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture, History, and the Environment, this reader seeks to provide new, nuanced, and multifaceted insights into the region within the broader context of global (dis)entanglements.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Part 1 International Organisations and International Law

The Ukraine War and UN Reform / Richard Gowan

What Is the United Nations For / Rasna Warah

What Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Syria Have Taught Us About the Politics of International Refugee Law / Jasmin Lilian Diab

Egyptian Judge with Evidence: The Imbalance of International Justice. A Reading of International Justice Judgements Qāḍin miṣriyyun bi-l-adillati: Ikhtilālu mīzāni l-ʿadli l-dawliyyi. Qirāʿatu fī aḥkāmi l-ʿadli l-dawlīyati / Fatma Mabrouk

UN Commission Found No Evidence of Genocide in Ukraine: What Does the New Report Say and Why Did the Scandal Arise? Komisiia OON ne znaishla dokaziv henocydu v Ukraini: Pro shto idetsia u novomu zviti ta chomu vynyk skandal? / Tetyana Bots

The World Beyond Ukraine: The Survival of the West and the Demands of the Rest / David Miliband

Part 2 Postcolonial and Decolonial Perspectives

of International Relations Did Not Understand About the Russian- Ukrainian War Khymery akademichnoi svidomosti: Choho zakhidni doslidnyky mizhnarodnykh vidnosyn ne rozumily pro rosiisko-ukrainsku viynu / Maksym Vikhrov

Ukraine: A Conflict Soaked in Contradictions / Vijay Prashad

Is Ukraine Just a White Man's War? The Diaspora Sees Through Europe's Self-interest / David Matthews

The Russia-Ukraine War: A View from the Southern Left / Ranabir Samaddar, Biao Xiang

Ukraine and the Indian Left: An Interview with Kavita Krishnan / Rohini Hensman

The Politics of Imperial Gratitude / Hilary Lynd

The Decolonisation and Provincialisation of Europe: Should We Go Beyond 'Topographical Decolonisation'? Dekolonizatsiia i provintsiializatsiia Evropy: chy varto vykhodyty poza 'topohrafichnu dekolonizatsiiu'? / Tamara Hundorova

Part 3 Rearmament, Neutrality, and Non-Alignment

If We Arm Ourselves, It's to Avoid War Si on s'arme, c'est pour éviter la guerre / Bruno Tertrais

Austria: Neutral for How Much Longer? / Fabian Scheidler

War in Ukraine, War in the Middle East: But Switzerland's Denial of Reality Is Breathtaking Krieg in der Ukraine, Krieg in Nahost: Doch die Realitätsverweigerung der Schweiz ist atemberaubend / Eric Gujer

Who Is Neutral and Who Is Wrong in [the] Ukraine War? / Muhammet Ali Güler

Serbia's Geopolitical Position After the Start of the War in Ukraine: Neutrality and Strategic Deterrence in a Crisis Context Geopolitički položaj Srbije nakon otpočinjanja rata u Ukrajini: Neutralnost i strateško odbraćanje u kriznom kontekstu / Aleksandar Gajić

Memo to the Global South: It's Time to Reboot the Non-Aligned Movement / Nontobeko Hlela

How India Has Kept the Spirit of NAM Alive / Kshitij Shandilya

The War Between Russia and Ukraine: Latin America and the Caribbean at a Global Crossroads Guerra Rusia-Ucrania: América Latina y el Caribe en una encrucijada global / Ariel González Levaggi, Pilar Martínez Otero

Ukraine Wants Brazil to Ask China to 'Force' Russia to Stop the War Ucrânia quer que Brasil peça à China para 'forçar' Rússia a parar guerra / Paulo Silva Pinto

Part 4 Religious Solidarities

A Holy War: The Russian Orthodox Church Blesses the War Against the West / Katarzyna Chawryło

Rotten Coalition Trula koalicija

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Pope Francis, and Russia's War Against Ukraine / Thomas Mark Németh

Ukraine Muslims Are Wary of Russian Invasion / Syed Ali Mujtaba

The Ukrainian Muslims Fighting Against Russia / Micah Reddy, Anastasia Levkova

How Jewish Is Volodymyr Zelensky? / Tash Mosheim

Part 5 Economy and Trading Routes

Global Food Crisis: A Fertiliser Strategy Must Be Part of the Answer Globale Ernährungskrise: Eine Düngestrategie muss Teil der Antwort sein / Michael Brüntrup

Africa Can Become the Agricultural Powerhouse of Tomorrow L'Afrique peut devenir la puissance agricole de demain / Viviane Forson

'Two Hemispheres' and 'Two Energy Circles': Reshaping the Global Energy Landscape in the Context of the Ukraine Crisis 'Liang ge banqiu hua' he 'liang ge nengyuan quan': Wukelan weiji beijing xia quanqiu nengyuan geju de chongsu / Guizhou Liu, Haokai Huang, Hongmin Hu

Blood Money / Denis Morokhin

Global Transformation, the Russia-Ukraine Crisis, and Sino- Russian Relations Quanqiu zhuanxing, E-Wu weiji yu Zhong-E guanxi / Shaolei Feng

Part 6 Ecology

War Is a Climate Killer / Angelika Claußen

Impact of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine on Africa's Energy Transition / Habiba Ahut Daggash

Russia's Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine: Impacts on China's Climate Responsibility in the Arctic / Karoliina Hurri, Sanna Kopra

Bullet from the Oil Needle Pulia iz neftianoi igly / Sergei Tarkhanov

Epilogue I Ukraine and Gaza-Relations and Comparison

She Left Ukraine for Gaza: Now She Has to Choose Between Two Wars / Lisa Rozovsky

Gaza Strip, Ukraine: Two Wars, Two Policies Strefa Gazy, Ukraina: dwie wojny, dwie polityki / Przemysław Urbańczyk

Trump Gaza Number One: A Few Words About One Politician's Megalomaniacal Dream Tramp-Gaza-Namber-Van: Kilka sliv pro mehalomaniakalnyi son odnoho polityka / Arina Kravchenko

Epilogue II US Presidential Elections 2025-Global Consequences

'Tearing Down': What Drives Trump's Foreign Policy? / Ali Harb

Amnesty International Warns of Global Human Rights Crisis as 'Trump Effect' Accelerates Destructive Trends / Amnesty International

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

9789048574773