This book is actually two books in a pack. The first part, titled "Why the War in Ukraine Is Changing the World," written by the journalist and writer Stavros Lygeros, is a study on the geopolitical, diplomatic, military and geoeconomic dimension of the Ukrainian crisis. The conclusion of the study, as the title says, is that this war, whatever its end, will change the international system qualitatively, the World will be geopolitically and geoeconomically different. The process of transition from present-day globalization to a new double-polarization, with one side being the West and the emerging Eurasian context, is visible to the naked eye. War in Ukraine was a product of this underlying trend, but its expression accelerates and radicalizes developments in one direction or another. In this sense, it will have a much greater impact than the major wars since 1945 (Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq). The second part, titled "The Complex Relations Between Ukrainians and Russians in History", was written by Dr. Nurfettin Kahraman of Mehmet Akif Ersoy University. Sotiris Dimopoulos (Bachelor of Arts from Kiev University) is the only study in the Greek literature on how any racial and ethnic identities were shaped in the geographical region of Ukraine during the last millennium, since some models of the state entity began to form in the region. Although clearly distinct, the two studies are complementary in the sense that contemporary events acquire another interpretative completeness within their historical context. Thus, the reader can understand the complexity and the fluctuations that characterize the relations of today's warring Ukrainians and Russians, realizing that the concept of "Ukrainians" until a few years ago had not the same content and geopolitical sign for all Ukrainians.
