Strategy of Sentimentality in EU Foreign Policy
Journal: Russia in Global Affairs
Year: 2022

The Ukraine crisis has set in motion the processes of a global divide between the West and the Non-West. In Europe, the new watershed means a military-political confrontation between Russia and NATO, following the patterns of the deep European security crisis of the 1970s and 1980s, when the parties were close to a nuclear war, but one never took place. Outside the European continent, the non-West is now actively taking stock of its relations with the Euro-Atlantic states.