Construction of the Contemporary “Security Community” in the Context of the Challenges of the Russian-Ukrainian War

Abstract

Russia’s large-scale military invasion in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 became a marker of the geopolitical fracture that the world community is experiencing today. In our opinion this fracture is primarily characterized by an open struggle between authoritarianism and democracy. And the result of the current war, in our opinion, is primarily a question of the future world order, in which security as a key category acquires special importance in a humanistic dimension and context. The security challenges of the first half of the 20th century prompted politicians-practitioners, scientists-theoreticians to search for effective models of the security system both at the regional and global levels. The creation and activity of the League of Nations became the starting point for realizing the risks and threats of “unanimity” in proceeding important geopolitical decisions. Therefore, the creation of the UN, whose Security Council acts according to the principle of “qualified” unanimity, was supposed to protect the world community from repeating the horrors of the world wars. However, as we can see, this principle has become the “stumbling block” that today proves the ineffectiveness of the UN as an international organization that should ensure peace in the world. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a direct threat to the existing system of international security. In this context we draw attention to the concept of “security community”, which in modern conditions can become the foundation of a new architecture of the world order.