Journal: EUROPOLITY CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE
Year: 2025

This article proposes the concept of 'strategic chaos' as an emerging analytical perspective in the study of contemporary international relations.Inspired by chaos theory from the natural sciences and complex systems thinking (Lorenz, Prigogine, Morin), the paper investigates how instability is deliberately cultivated by various state and non-state actors as a geopolitical tool.By integrating ideas from classical theories of international relations (realism, liberalism, constructivism) with elem