The erupting volcano

The role of the Ukraine frozen conflict and ongoing war in transforming international and European order

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ID12936830
AuthorsAvdi Smajljaj (0000-0003-0540-5149, Epoka University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume16
Issue4
Pages401-413
Publication date2024-05-21
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Aggression Conflict and Peace Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1759-6599 • E-ISSN: 2042-8715
PublisherEmerald Publishing Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1108/jacpr-02-2024-0880
OpenAlexW4398175609
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited10

Purpose The European Union (EU) and Russia are considered to be trapped into security concerns in a form of spillover, in a zero sum perspective, considering each step of the other as directed against another. Such an approach seems to prevail, after attempts of engagements for decades after the Cold War. Rather history prevailed in informing perceptions and currently driving the behaviors toward each other, in other words in othering each other. Design/methodology/approach Discourse analysis Findings The move in Eastern Europe of both parties is perceived with suspicion from both sides, materialized through their policies, culminated in clash of interests and crash of policies between both parts, manifested by Russian aggression in Ukraine in 2014 and recently in 2022 in one side, and the EU response through massive, unprecedented sanctions against Russia. This has created a context that fosters not just keeping a status quo of clash and struggle for influence between them in the region, but also nourishes further securitization of their respective policies toward the Eastern Europe and beyond. In 2014 and more recently in 2022 Russian aggression in Ukraine, the EU and Russia appear to have the same image to each other as they had during the Cold War, or even beyond. Having this in mind, this paper will address those developments, with particular focus on attempts to avoid them, the failure to do so and how they are impacting the EU, Russia and global politics in a form of emerging new world (dis)order. Originality/value This paper is an original paper having a critical approach toward the current conflicts going on in Eastern Europe

Context (archaeology · Economics · European union · Foreign policy · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sanctions · Sociology · Status quo · Superpower · Value (mathematics · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · European Union Policy and Governance · History · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics

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