The Russo-Ukrainian War and Memory Politics in International Relations

Bibliographic Data

ID8251982
AuthorsThomas Fetzer (0000-0002-5148-4610, Central European University, corresponding author), Ivan Nikolovski (0000-0002-2283-8977, Central European University)
Year2025
Volume5
Issue4
Publication date2025-12-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2634-3797 • E-ISSN: 2634-3797
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/isagsq/ksaf109
OpenAlexW7117880442
LanguageEN
References cited82

The Russo-Ukrainian War has transformed global memory politics, crystallizing a shift away from the post-1989 paradigm of “moral remembrance” toward modes rooted in Cold War, decolonization, and security discourse. This Special Forum introduction brings diverse contributions within a broader theoretical agenda, arguing that the war functions as a global “impact event” that reconfigures mnemonic relations across national and transnational contexts. It proposes conceptual innovation by linking collective memory to transformations in the global order and by rethinking the memory-security nexus. Against this backdrop, memory operates as both an instrument and a site of geopolitical contestation in international relations

Cold war · Geopolitics · Global politics · International relations · International relations theory · International security · Mnemonic · Politics · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Soviet and Russian History