Dear colleagues!

The Foreign Policy Research Institute, with the support of the General Directorate for the Servicing of Foreign Missions, invites you to participate in a roundtable discussion for foreign diplomatic missions, leading Ukrainian media, and the expert community on the topic:"World Order After the End of the Third World War" which will take place on May 29, 2025, from 11:00 to 13:10, at the Media Center of the General Directorate for the Servicing of Foreign Missions, located at 6a Pyrohova Street, Kyiv.

During the roundtable, the following conceptual issues will be discussed:

1. Whether multipolarity, a return to unipolarity, bipolarity, or tripolarity in the international system is determined by the balance of power.
2. Is achieving a just peace possible in the context of the Third World War (regarding the Russian-Ukrainian peace)?
3. The interests of key players in the reshaping of the world order:
   • USA – global leader or regional actor?
   • China – regional actor or global hegemon?
   • Russia – regional or global superpower?
   • Europe – American partner or autonomous global player?
   • Ukraine – victim of war or regional leader?
4. Who will emerge as the victor of the Third World War?
5. The dismantling of the Yalta system and a return to a new bipolarity of the USA + Russia.
6. The prospect of a U.S.-Russia alliance based on Russia's Eurasian project and U.S. non-isolationism in containing China.
7. Whether China can shift the U.S.-centric world to a China-centric one depends on Russia. China + Russia = USA as a transitional phase of shifting power balances.
8. Where is the boundary for global compromise to achieve stable peace after the Third World War?
9. Can a tripolar world serve as such a system, with Russia receiving Eurasia including all of Europe, the USA retaining North and Central America, and China gaining Southeast and South Asia with influence claims over Africa and Latin America?
10. In what international system can Europe become an autonomous global geopolitical player?
11. What is Ukraine’s place in a multipolar, unipolar, bipolar, or tripolar system of international relations?

Participants will include:

• Mykola KAPITONENKO, Associate Professor of the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy at the Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor.
• Maksym PALAMARCHUK, Deputy Director and Head of the Center for Foreign Policy Studies at the National Institute for Strategic Studies.
• Serhii TOLSTOV, Head of the Transatlantic Studies Department, State Institution "Institute of World History of the NAS of Ukraine", Doctor of Historical Sciences.
• Pavlo HAI–NIZHNYK, Acting Senior Research Fellow of the Department of Political Culture and Ideology at the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnonational Studies of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Historical Sciences.
• Oleh KONDRATENKO, Senior Research Fellow of the Department of World Political Development Issues at the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnonational Studies of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Political Sciences, Associate Professor.

Working language: Ukrainian, with simultaneous interpretation into English provided.

Please confirm your participation by May 27, 2025.

For registration and further information, please contact:
Tel.: +287-52-58; +38 097 487 2000
Email: pgrigoriy@ukr.net