REGIONAL DYNAMICS AND CHANGING SECURITY SCENARIO OF EUROPE: A CASE STUDY OF RUSSIAN- UKRAINIAN WAR

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating how Russia-Ukraine war changed the regional dynamics and essentially the European security landscape, with an emphasis on geopolitical, geostrategic, and geo-economic implications imposed by conflict. The indirect impacts that further the war, besides the military confrontation, are economic stability, energy security, and even more general ideological contest between authoritarian and liberal state systems. This war has been revealed faintness in European security system and brought to bear the reassertion of perspectives of major power politics, with Russia trying to reassert its dominance and challenge that of US and NATO. This research is based on the qualitative methodology and various primary and secondary sources since it is concerned with complex relations between regional and global actors, mainly in a way the Russia-Ukraine conflict has changed security in Europe and put the current international order to the test. This study establishes that war has revealed weaknesses in European security architecture, the renewal of great power politics & the imperative of creating region-specific security frameworks that are more robust and functional.