‘Move the gateposts during the Game’: When Russia and the EU de-order both their relationship and the liberal world order
Journal: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University International relations
Year: 2022

The article looks at EU-Russian relations and their current crisis through the prism of the liberal world order (LWO) and its contestation. Since the late 1990s Russia has gradually moved from neorevisionist to revisionist challenge of the LWO, undermining in its relations with the EU such components of this order as political values and security. The EU previously positioned itself as a staunch defender of the LWO; Brussels tried both to enforce elements of the LWO and to accommodate Russia’s c