Russia’s war on Ukraine has been closely watched and widely debated worldwide. These discussions extend beyond the war itself to encompass its implications for the world order and the future of globalisation. This reader documents that debate by bringing together articles from all regions of the world published in newspapers, journals, magazines, and blogs between Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and Donald Trump’s election victory in 2024. The collection includes texts originally written in English as well as translations from Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. It offers reflections on international law and international organisations; postcolonial and decolonial critiques of power; rearmament, neutrality, and non-alignment; transregional religious solidarities; and the economic and environmental consequences of the war. As part of the series GWZO Studies on Central and Eastern Europe: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture, History, and the Environment, this reader seeks to provide new, nuanced, and multifaceted insights into the region within the broader context of global (dis)entanglements.

Dennis Dierks is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Eastern and Southeastern European History at Leipzig University.Katja Castryck-Naumann is a senior researcher and the head of the Research Training Group ‘Global Armenia/ns’ at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO).Lena Dallywater is a researcher and academic coordinator in the Cluster of Excellence Imaginamics at the University of Jena.Stefan Rohdewald holds the Chair of Eastern and Southeastern European History at Leipzig University.

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: International Organisations and International Law
Chapter 2: Postcolonial and Decolonial Perspectives
Chapter 3: Rearmament, Neutrality, and Non-Alignment
Chapter 4: Religious Solidarities
Chapter 5: Economy and Trading Routes
Chapter 6: Ecology
Epilogue I: Ukraine and Gaza—Relations and Comparison
Epilogue II: US Presidential Elections 2025—Global Consequences
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
About the Editors
Index