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The erupting volcano: the role of the Ukraine frozen conflict and ongoing war in transforming international and European order

Avdi Smajljaj

Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research

ISSN: 1759-6599

Article publication date: 21 May 2024

Issue publication date: 6 November 2024

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Abstract

Purpose

The European Union (EU) and Russia are considered to be trapped into security concerns in a form of spillover, in a zero sum perspective, considering each step of the other as directed against another. Such an approach seems to prevail, after attempts of engagements for decades after the Cold War. Rather history prevailed in informing perceptions and currently driving the behaviors toward each other, in other words in othering each other.

Design/methodology/approach

Discourse analysis

Findings

The move in Eastern Europe of both parties is perceived with suspicion from both sides, materialized through their policies, culminated in clash of interests and crash of policies between both parts, manifested by Russian aggression in Ukraine in 2014 and recently in 2022 in one side, and the EU response through massive, unprecedented sanctions against Russia. This has created a context that fosters not just keeping a status quo of clash and struggle for influence between them in the region, but also nourishes further securitization of their respective policies toward the Eastern Europe and beyond. In 2014 and more recently in 2022 Russian aggression in Ukraine, the EU and Russia appear to have the same image to each other as they had during the Cold War, or even beyond. Having this in mind, this paper will address those developments, with particular focus on attempts to avoid them, the failure to do so and how they are impacting the EU, Russia and global politics in a form of emerging new world (dis)order.

Originality/value

This paper is an original paper having a critical approach toward the current conflicts going on in Eastern Europe.

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Acknowledgements

Declaration of the conflict of interest: The author Avdi Smajljaj, PhD in Political Science, lecturer at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Epoka University, Tirana, Albania (Email: asmajljaj@epoka.edu.al), declares that there is no conflict of interest on the paper entitled: The erupting volcano: the role of the Ukraine frozen conflict and ongoing war in transforming international and European order.

Erratum: It has come to the attention of the publisher that the article, Smajljaj, A. (2024), “The erupting volcano: the role of the Ukraine frozen conflict and ongoing war in transforming international and European order”, Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JACPR-02-2024-0880, incorrectly listed the keywords associated with the article as “Minority, Inclusiveness, Kosovo, Minority rights, Interethnic relation”. This error was the result of an unexpected system error during the production process.

The keywords have been corrected in the online version of the manuscript. The publisher sincerely apologises for any inconvenience caused.

Citation

Smajljaj, A. (2024), "The erupting volcano: the role of the Ukraine frozen conflict and ongoing war in transforming international and European order", Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, Vol. 16 No. 4, pp. 401-413. https://doi.org/10.1108/JACPR-02-2024-0880

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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