Despite many hiccups along the road and differing conceptions of what form it would take, throughout the post-Cold War period both Russia and the European Union remained committed to the aim of creating a single European space from Lisbon to Vladivostok. That is, until 2014: Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the onset of the Ukraine crisis put a definitive end to such hopes. Since then, it has become popular to speculate as to whether the liberal international order itself is threatened by this new confrontation between Moscow and Western capitals. Indeed, it is not without cause that Russia’s newfound revanchism is seen as marking a breaking point in the order’s history…