Presentations by Streams

The panel is an attempt at showing how the actions of contemporary Russia on the international arena aim at restoring the status quo ante, as shown in the example of the war with Ukraine. In the 1990s, we witnessed a weakening of the international position of Russia – the successor to the USSR. In the 21st century, on the other hand, Russia’s policy towards its neighbors, and in the future, perhaps towards more distant countries as well, has become aggressively driven by imperialistic goals. In order to tackle the research problem effectively, the following questions will be discussed: What will be the outcome of the revisionism for Ukraine, Europe, and Russia itself? Does the Russo-Ukrainian war constitute the end of the post-Cold-War cooperation period between Russia and the West? Is the conflict around Ukraine a symbolic end of the post-Cold-War world order? What is a future of world order? Is Ukraine a hostage in the game between Russia and the West? Is the armed conflict destroying Russia’s plot for the reintegration of the post-Soviet space which pivots around Ukraine?