Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine und die Perspektiven der Weltwirtschaft – Sanktionen, Nicht-staatliche Akteure, Kollateralschäden und die Nachhaltigkeitsziele im internationalen System

Abstract

This essay discusses the new forces at work about the conduct of the war of aggression of Russia against the sovereign state of Ukraine. The essay starts in a first section with a discussion on the sanctions imposed by the Western countries to react to the Russian war against the Ukraine; the impacts and the types of the sanctions are considered. The section two analyses the role of the Wagner Group as part of a strategy by the Kremlin to use informal military and financial networks for the financing of the war of aggres- sion; the instruments to counter the sanctions of Western countries are exemplified by the plundering of gold which is mined in the Sudan. In a third section the prospects of the sanctions coalition of the West are considered, then the damages for the economy of the Ukraine and the plans for reparation payments and economic reconstruction after the end of the war, and then the implications of the war for the global security system. In the fourth section three groups of action programmes are considered, by highlighting first, the need to increase the surveillance of the non-state actors in the international system, like the Wagner Group; by investigating second, the collateral damages of the war of aggression on third countries and the global system; and by studying third, the impacts of the war on the "Global Agenda 2030", because all the seventeen (17) sus- tainable development goals (SDGs) are affected negatively. In a fifth and final section the implications of the "Joint Statement of China and Russia on the International Rela- tions Entering a New Era, released on February 4, 2022" are considered for the future of Germany and of the EU.