Since the renewed beginning of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine a year ago, experts and politicians have been talking about a paradigm shift, which in Europe, by the otherwise so hesitant German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, was given the name “turning point” (“Zeitenwende”) just a few days after the outbreak of war. For the first time since 1945, a nuclear power and one of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council is militarily attacking a neighbouring state, threatening to use nuclear weapons and having a real chance of discrediting the existing multilateral world order as an instrument of Western power. The authors of the three first TDHJ Special Editions in 2023 systematically examine this epochal change in three steps.
