Ruxit Revisited: Unravelling Russia's Dissociation From the Pan‐European Security Order
Journal: Global Policy
Year: 2025

ABSTRACT Russia's first invasion of Ukraine in 2014 marked the culmination of Russia's dissociation from the project of institutionalised pan‐European security and from the global liberal order more generally. While not denying the relevance of studying the causes of Russia's attacks on Ukraine, this study focuses on Russia's progressing dissociation from Western institutions that preceded the escalation of military tensions. Processes of dissociation—defined as the intentional distancing from t