Russia and the World

As with almost all aspects of this book, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, from February 2022, overshadows and to some extent reshapes our understanding of contemporary Russia; in this case in relation to Russia’s place in the wider world. The war itself—in a situation of relatively static brutality at the time of writing, in mid-2024—has the potential to restructure the world order and its global security architecture away from the institutions and accompanying assumptions that have been in place for decades.