The End of Russian Hegemony in the Post-Soviet Space? War in Ukraine and Disintegration Processes in Eurasia

Abstract

The article examines the disintegration processes that are a consequence of the collapse of the Russian hegemonic order in the post-Soviet space. Russia’s disagreement with the established system of international order and US hegemony was one of the reasons for Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. On the one hand, the invasion in Ukraine is Russia’s attempt to hold on to the hegemonic order and to form a geopolitical bloc with potential allies, including China, Iran and India, which also oppose the global hegemony of the United States. On the other, the invasion in Ukraine is a redefinition of its own geopolitical ambitions, which Russia uses to constitute an alternative hegemonic order of the global level.