Münster University experts analyse war in Ukraine

Russia has attacked and invaded Ukraine. The world is shocked, unanimously condemns the invasion and imposes drastic sanctions on the government in Moscow. More than 670.000 people are fleeing, according to estimates. In the following guest commentaries, Münster University experts - Prof. Ricarda Vulpius and Dr. Vitalij Fastovskij from the Department of Eastern European History at Münster University's History Department, Prof. Thomas Apolte , Chair of Political Economy, Prof. Doris Fuchs , Chair of International Relations and Sustainable Development, and Prof. Nexhmedin Morina , Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy - analyse the effects of the war in Ukraine. "A war of aggression against a militarily weaker country is a new phenomenon in postwar European history" This large-scale territorial war in the middle of Europe represents a turning point. The unification process in Europe after the Second World War did not, it is true, signify an end to military conflicts - as the war in Yugoslavia demonstrated. But this war of aggression waged by a European nuclear power against a territorially smaller and militarily weaker country, without being threatened itself, is a new phenomenon in European postwar history.