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Category: Issue 1-2 2026

Issue 1-2/2026: Europe in the new disorder

If the past year has shown us anything, it is that the world order many of us took for granted is no longer secure.

February 23, 2026 - New Eastern Europe

Towards a new world disorder?

The post–Second World War international order appears to be nearing its end. It is increasingly being replaced by a system that openly presents itself as non-liberal, if not outrightly anti-liberal. Should this emerging (dis)order remain nominally rules-based, its rules will differ fundamentally from those established after 1945. They may simply reflect the shifting whims of powerful leaders rather than stable and broadly accepted norms of conduct.

February 23, 2026 - Andreas Umland

The collapse of the European security order

The sense that Europe is adrift in the emerging world order reflects both external shocks and internal shortcomings. On the one hand, the United States is signalling that Europe is no longer the central theatre of American strategy. On the other, Europeans remain divided on how far they are willing to go in assuming real strategic responsibility, or the so-called European strategic autonomy.

February 23, 2026 - Wojciech Michnik

The last frontier. Europe’s psychological war

Europe now finds itself sandwiched between two autocrats, each working to weaken Europe for his own purposes. Those purposes may not be joint, but they intersect and are clear: they want to activate the Trojan horses of anti-EU, illiberal, political insurgency and thus undermine EU policies and democratic values from within. At stake now is the survival of Europe.

February 23, 2026 - Paul Bell

When war becomes a national idea: Russia’s strategy towards Europe

If Russia is not stopped in Ukraine, it will double down on efforts to destabilize Europe and may again turn to armed aggression. The safest and cheapest option for NATO is to give Ukraine the financial and military support it needs to block Moscow’s imperial ambitions. Meanwhile, the unpunished genocide unfolding in the heart of Europe painfully exposes the weakness and cynicism of Europe’s legal and value-based order.

February 23, 2026 - Maria Domańska

Never again meets a new war

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has forced Germany into a reckoning that would have seemed implausible just a few years ago. Warnings that Moscow could attack another European country before the end of the decade have pushed Berlin into its most ambitious rearmament effort since the Cold War. However, this shift has not come without resistance.

February 23, 2026 - Isabelle de Pommereau

Latin Europe

What a future European culture will look like remains an open question. What matters here is the insistence that such a culture must exist at all. Europe should be understood as an idea and a system of symbols, not as a race or a nation. For this to be possible, Europe requires a renewed sense of continuity.

February 23, 2026 - David Hallbeck

In the long shadow of Silicon Valley

Once dismissed as an eccentric Silicon Valley subculture, neoreactionary thought has begun to surface at the highest levels of western political debate. Rejecting democracy in favour of authoritarian rule, the “Dark Enlightenment” now influences figures in the American tech sector and government while attracting keen interest from Russian ideologues. The transnational creep of neoreactionary thought reveals a growing alignment between anti-liberal currents on both sides of the Atlantic.

February 23, 2026 - Justin Tomczyk

Ukraine’s post-war labour dilemma: Who will fill the jobs?

Discussions are beginning to grow with regards to the shape of Ukraine following the end of Russia’s current invasion. This is particularly true regarding the economy, as well as the labour force that will power reconstruction. While experts all agree on a need for new thinking, the future in this sphere remains uncertain.

February 23, 2026 - Stanislav Storozhenko

The return of Siarhei Tsikhanouski and what it means for the Belarusian democratic forces

The re-entry of Siarhei Tsikhanouski into the Belarusian political scene has revealed fault lines within the opposition movement. His symbolic role, carefully maintained by his wife Sviatlana and the broader opposition, has now collided with the structured, diplomatically-oriented political architecture built in his absence.

February 23, 2026 - Hanna Vasilevich

Punished for being abused: Belarusian controversy

Gradually but decisively, the European Union is folding Belarus into the same category as Russia. The toughest measures are coming from states that share a border with Belarus. How did a society once seen as a victim of Europe’s most brutal dictatorship come to be regarded as complicit in its crimes?

February 23, 2026 - Nasta Zakharevich

Macedonians seek justice to heal Kočani’s wounds

Every Saturday in Kočani, North Macedonia, looks the same since last year’s tragedy. Parents gather for a weekly march across the small town. It usually starts at the city park, continues to the police headquarters and ends in front of the local court – a reminder for the institutions to do their job. The marches continue, driven not by the promise of answers, but by the fear that those answers may never arrive.

February 23, 2026 - Jovan Gjorgovski

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