title: A NEW WORLD WAR CAN BEGIN OR HAS ALREADY BEGUN?
abstract: The article examines the problem of clarifying the essence of world wars, which is relevant in the current conditions of international relations. For a long time, the World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945) were considered such wars. The consequences and impact of Russia's war against Ukraine, which began in 2014 and became widespread in 2022, on the renewal of disputes about the essence of world wars are investigated, since other countries began to participate indirectly in it on t
journal: The Journal of V N Karazin Kharkov National University Issues of Political Science