Table of Contents:
  • The modern Westphalian world order : power and legitimacy
  • The rise of Western-centric world order
  • Pax Americana : the new world order of liberal hegemony
  • Decline of the West and the liberal world order
  • NATO expansion and the collapse of the Pan-European order
  • Ukraine as a pawn in a divided Europe : 1991-2014
  • The Ukrainian Civil War 2014-2022
  • The Russian Invasion of 2022
  • A Eurasian-Westphalian world order
  • Conclusion: Interregnum : Transition, uncertainty and disorder.