Dear colleagues!

The Foreign Policy Research Institute, with the assistance of the Directorate-General for Rendering Services to Diplomatic Missions, invites you to the roundtable discussion for foreign diplomatic missions, leading Ukrainian mass media outlets, and experts on a topic entitled The World Order after the Third World War, which will take place on 29 May 2025 from 11:00 am to 1:10 pm at the Media Center Directorate of the GDIP located at 6-А Pyrohova St. The event will combine offline and online participation modes.

Moderator: Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, full professor at the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of the Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations (ESIIR) of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Doctor of Political Science — Hryhorii PEREPELYTSIA.

The roundtable discussion’s speakers:

•  Mykola KAPITONENKO, PhD in Political Science, associate professor of the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of the ESIIR of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, executive director of the Centre for International Relations Studies;
•  Maksym PALAMARCHUK, PhD in Political Science, senior research fellow, Deputy Director — Head of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at the National Institute for Strategic Studies;
•  Sergii TOLSTOV, Head of the Department of Transatlantic Research of the State Institution ‘Institute of World History of the NAS of Ukraine’, PhD in Political Science, associate professor;
•  Pavlo HAI-NYZHNYK, acting leading research fellow of the Department of Political Culture and Ideology of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of History;
• Oleh KONDRATENKO, leading research fellow of the Department of Global Political Development Problems of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Political Science, associate professor.

The speakers will discuss the following framework issues:

1. Multipolarity, return to unipolarity, bipolar and tripolar systems of international relations is determined by the balance of power.  
2. Is it possible to achieve a just peace amid a Third World War (referring to peace between russia and Ukraine)?
3. Key global actors’ interests in reshaping the world order:

• • USA — global leader or regional power?
  • China — regional actor or global hegemon?
  • russia — regional or global superpower?
  • Europe — US partner or autonomous global power?
  • Ukraine — victim of war or regional leader?

4. Who will win a potential Third World War?
5. The dismantling of the Yalta system and a return to a new US + russia bipolarity.
6. The prospect of a US–russia alliance based on russia’s Eurasianist vision and US neo-isolationism in counterbalancing China.
7. Can China shift the American-centric world towards a China-centric one — and does this depend on russia? A China–russia bloc coincides with the US as a transitional phase in the shifting balance of power.
8. What is the limit of global compromise required to achieve stable peace after a Third World War?
9. Could a tripolar world emerge if: russia gains control over Eurasia, including Europe, the US retains leadership of North and Central America, and China dominates South and Southeast Asia with expanding influence in Africa and Latin America? 
10. In what international relations system can Europe become an autonomous global geopolitical power?
11. What is Ukraine’s position in a multipolar, unipolar, bipolar, or tripolar system of international relations?

Working language: Ukrainian with simultaneous interpretation into English.

To register or receive additional information, please contact us by phone at +38 (097) 487-20-00, +38 (044) 287-52-58, or via email at pgrigoriy@ukr.net.

Registration will remain open until 27 May 2025.

If you are arriving by your vehicle, please call +38 (067) 215-16-09 to have the barrier raised.

Please join us!