ROUND TABLE «WORLD ORDER AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD WAR III»

On Thursday, May 29, 2025, the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies, with the organizational assistance of the State Enterprise “General Directorate for Servicing Foreign Missions”, held a round table on the topic: “World Order after the End of World War III”.

The event was moderated by the Director of the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor of the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of the Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Captain 1st Rank Hryhoriy Perepelytsia.

The active discussion was joined by scientists, university teachers and students, as well as diplomats.

During the round table, experts expressed professional forecasts on such important issues as:

  • the transformation of the system of international relations depending on the balance of power — between unipolarity, bipolarity, tripolarity and multipolarity;

  • the possibility of achieving a just peace in the conditions of the Third World War;

  • the geopolitical ambitions of the main players — the USA, China, Russia, Europe and Ukraine;

  • scenarios for dismantling the Yalta system and forming new alliances;

  • the potential of the USA and the Russian Federation to cooperate in containing China;

  • the likelihood of a transition to a China-centric world;

  • the limits of a global compromise to achieve stable peace;

  • the role of Europe as a possible autonomous global geopolitical player;

  • and the place of Ukraine in the new configuration of the world order.

Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was represented by: Oleg Kondratenko, Leading Research Fellow of the Department of Problems of World Political Development, and Pavlo Gai-Nyzhnyk, Leading Research Fellow of the Department of Political Culture and Ideology.