2025-01-19202439633810.1080/00396338.2024.23320552-s2.0-85188934348https://doi.org/10.1080/00396338.2024.2332055https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/26583Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine constitutes a critical juncture for the trajectory of the liberal-international order. It has undermined the US-led order by widening geopolitical rifts between the West and the Global South, increasing pressure on liberal democracy on a global scale and weakening the neo-liberal economic paradigm that has anchored the economic order since the 1980s. © 2024 The International Institute for Strategic Studies.International relationsJournal Article1468-26991258693300005Q251018