Towards a nuclear multipolar world and its spillover effects

Abstract

This article analyzes the changes in international structure after the Russia-Ukraine War and its impact on Europe’s security and spill over effects. The major impact of the war on the security of Europe and the world is the serious reawakening of the nuclear dimension of international relations. With the threat of Russian nuclear weapons, Sweden and Finland abandoned their neutrality and applied it to become NATO members. This study reviews national security and defense strategy documents and reports of the USA, France and Germany in light of neo-realism. In the post-Russia-Ukraine War analysis of 2022 documents and reports of the aforementioned countries, we will see more complicated and security-oriented international relations in the next decade because of the transition to a nuclear multipolar international structure. The new international structure seems more complicated because nuclear multipolar aspect rather than bipolar one. States will either seek a nuclear umbrella or develop nuclear weapons in the face of the first nuclear multipolar international structure. This may also affect Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Japan and South Korea. This suggests nuclear proliferation risk.