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Policy paper | Managing imperial decline: a new EU policy towards Russia

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has shattered the post-Cold War international order built upon East-West interdependence and cooperation. The European Union (EU) - which had tried to pursue a strategic relationship with Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 - must now adapt to the geopolitical reality of Russian neo-revisionism. Hugo Blewett-Mundy, an Associate Research Fellow at EUROPEUM Institute, identifies four areas where the EU's policy towards Russia could evolve to confront this emerging security situation in Europe.

The existential challenge facing Ukraine, and the postwar process of European integration, means that the EU can no longer return to a business-as-usual approach towards Russia. Rather, the goal of the EU's Russia policy should be to consolidate a secure and democratically-resilient European eastern neighbourhood.

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