Call for Paper - Central and Eastern Europe in the face of a new global (dis-)order: challenges and solutions

The values-based international order that had been shaped by the countries of Global North since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union finally "died out" in February 2022, with the start of Russia's aggression against Ukraine. However, the fall was neither sudden nor unexpected...

If the collapse of the Soviet Union was a mild earthquake, then we are now dealing with a tsunami – Russia is not going to accept the collapse of the Empire and is desperately trying to stop the inevitable regression of its international position in the only way it knows how.

The re-election of Donald Trump as President of the United States has not only not changed the face of the war, but on the contrary, it has incited Russia to further aggression, is not conducive to the cohesion and resilience of the Euro-Atlantic community, and is "harvesting" the remnants of the international order.

China as "a wise monkey sitting on top of the mountain to watch the two tigers fight in the valley below" is strengthening its international position by taking advantage of the chaos, aggressiveness and unpredictability of Russia and the United States, pushing Europe into its embrace, with all the negative consequences of this state of affairs.

A new “concert of powers” is being born before our eyes, in which Europe, and especially Central and Eastern Europe, is attributed the role of "fertilizer of history", and the nineteenth principles governing international politics are making a terrifying comeback.

The aim of the issue is to try to understand the reasons that caused the international order to "return to the past"? Is the current condition of the system of international relations the natural order of things, and was the value-based order a short-lived aberration? Do the causes of the new time of unrest have an internal political genesis or do they result from the nature of interstate relations?

Another problem area of the proposed issue is the structure of threats faced by the countries of the region (material and intangible; in the field of state security, socio-economic and identity threats). This problem area is associated with the concept of the resilience of countries to current and future threats, as well as the question of how much the countries of the region are able to cope with it on their own, whether they can count on support from the outside, what is the value of old alliances and historical traditions of cooperation today...

 

Deadline: 17 of August.