A Year Since the Return of History: A New Cold War?

ForewordWednesday, March 1, 2023
The last one year proved itself to be a very tough year, and it brought many new challenges for the international relations. Among these new challenges, the most striking one is probably the Russia’s unleashing a war of aggression on Ukraine....

Aybars Arda Kılıçer

East vs. West: A New Cold War?Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Anticipations of a positive peace order after the end of the Cold War in 1989 soon led to disappointment. The issues in dispute then are the ones that later generated alienation, followed by conflict and the subsequent hot conflict in 2022. A...

Richard Sakwa

Imperial or Colonial: The War is Fought Over the Soviet Past and a Broken PartnershipWednesday, March 1, 2023
I landed at Boryspol Airport outside Kyiv for the very first time in early May 2005. Half a year before, in November 2004, Ukraine had been on the front pages of every newspaper in the West, when the Orange Revolution shook the country and ended the...

Li Bennich-Björkman

The West Versus The Rest: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Crisis of the “Post-Western” OrderWednesday, March 1, 2023
The Russian invasion of Ukraine marked a significant point of rupture and the beginning of a new era with dramatic consequences. The long-term consequences of the War on the international system might be as dramatic as other early...

Ziya Öniş

Russia, Ukraine, and Lasting Peace in EuropeWednesday, March 1, 2023
The official Ukrainian narrative about the war goes more or less like this: In an effort to end Ukraine’s existence as a state, Russia launched an unprovoked attack on Ukraine. Testing the waters, before that, Russia annexed Crimea and invaded...

Nicolai N. Petro

East-West Relations: A New Cold War?Wednesday, March 1, 2023
When the Cold War ended, the world rejoiced that a problematic state of international relations had ended. The competition between the free world characterized by politics of liberal democracy and economies driven by market forces and the socialist...

İlter Turan

Small States and the War in UkraineWednesday, March 1, 2023
The War in Ukraine marks a return to militarized great power rivalry. The war is yet another manifestation of the liberal international order's ongoing crisis, which began with the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001. It has...

Anders Wivel

Lessons From the Ukrainian Refugee CrisisWednesday, March 1, 2023
One of the very few bright spots in the last year has been the European humanitarian response to the invasion of Ukraine. According to published figures, at least 8 million Ukrainians have crossed international borders to escape the fighting in their...

Itty Abraham

U.S. Foreign Policy and the War in UkraineWednesday, March 1, 2023
America’s reaction to the war in Ukraine is nested in a broader phenomenon that, some would argue, has seen America wandering in a foreign policy wilderness since the end of the Cold War. As nonsensical as it may seem, given the...

James A. Russell

The Role of Democracy Discourse in the Emerging "New Cold War"Wednesday, March 1, 2023
With the end of the Cold War, the international system transformed into unipolarity and the United States (U.S.) emerged as the unrivaled superpower. Several authors, Francis Fukuyama being in the first place, viewed the victory of capitalism against...

West vs. Non-West: A New Cold War?Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Periodically, global geopolitical power and influence transform and evolve in international relations. Currently, the world is experiencing such a shift in the 21st century. This is seen in the physical realm of people, places, and events. But...

Greg Simons

The Impact of the Ukrainian-Russian War on RwandaWednesday, March 1, 2023
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022[1] signaled too much of the world how past Cold War norms, thought to have ended, are still very much alive. Russia’s war against Ukraine has grown from a regional and historical...

Jonathan Beloff

Will Türkiye Find Herself a Place in the New World Order?Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Amid the Cyprus crisis in 1964, U.S. President Johnson’s notorious letter to the Turkish Premier İsmet İnönü escalated the tensions between Ankara and Washington. İnönü responded to the American warning against a Turkish...

Oğul Tuna

From East to North: New Frontiers for the EU-NATO Arctic DefenseWednesday, March 1, 2023
During the Cold War, the Arctic was one of the crucial hubs of confrontation between the two blocs and was, therefore the scene of heavy militarization. The Arctic security agenda was thus declined in initially strictly military terms, and political,...

Luca Cinciripini

Concerns for Food Security in the Mediterranean and TürkiyeWednesday, March 1, 2023
A study shows that the ‘business-as-usual’ scenario would entail by 2050 an increase in world population by more than 50 percent, a doubling of food requirements, and a continuing inequality in the sharing of resources.[1] This...

Gün Ünal

Exploring the Russian Perspective on the War in Ukraine: Demography's Power and Ukraine's UniquenessWednesday, March 1, 2023
Many people saw Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which began in 2014 with the illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and escalated into violent conflicts beginning on 24 February 2022, as a daring and risky attempt by the so-called...

Aybars Arda Kılıçer

A "Civil Association" Between the European Union and RussiaWednesday, March 1, 2023
The political worldviews of actors are essential to understanding the international conflicts we experience today. These worldviews of states draw the foundations of the map of confrontation between them.[1] Political ideologies are not simply...

Enes Özcan

What Effects Does the Ukrainian Conflict Have on Ties Between the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Russia?Wednesday, March 1, 2023
With Russia’s war in Ukraine, the states of the 21st century realized how the international system ultra-complicated and insecure is. At this point, policymakers need to be more cautious in determining their interests, policies, fears, and...

Shovkat Jabarova

Nuclear Non-Threat in the Context of Russian Invasion of UkraineWednesday, March 1, 2023
Russia is widely recognized as one of the major nuclear powers in the world. It possesses one of the largest nuclear arsenals, with an estimated 4,300 nuclear warheads in active inventory as of 2021.[1] This nuclear arsenal includes various...

Ali Demircioğlu

A Year Since the Return of History: A New Cold War?Vol. 21 No. 4 Winter 2022/23

A Year Since the Return of History: A New Cold War?
Vol. 21 No. 4 Winter 2022/23