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This chapter aims to evaluate the regional and global impacts of the conflict in Ukraine in relation with the challenges posed by Russia to the security of the Euro-Atlantic community. Relations between Russia and the West are going through a period of a clash of principles and interests at all levels which has turned into an asymmetric conflict since 2014. Some analysts even claim that a “New Cold War” has emerged between Russia and the West. Yet, the risk of such a new Cold War directly affects the sustainability of the Trans-Atlantic security architecture especially in the light of Moscow’s efforts to preserve the post-Soviet space as an area of geopolitical turmoil. It can be argued that by punishing Ukraine for its Western aspirations, Moscow expressed its geopolitical will to become a global—although an isolated and hybrid—superpower.
This chapter draws on Sergii Glebov, “Russia as a Rising Isolated Power and the W(r)est: Wrestling Ukraine from the West and the New Euro-Atlantic Puzzle,” Rising Powers Quarterly 2, no. 1 (2017): 145–167. http://risingpowersproject.com/quarterly/russia-rising-isolated-power-wrest-wrestling-ukraine-west-new-euro-atlantic-puzzle/
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Glebov, S.V. (2020). Ukraine Between Russia and the West: Russian Challenge to Euro-Atlantic Security. In: Parlar Dal, E., Erşen, E. (eds) Russia in the Changing International System. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21832-4_9
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