BELARUS’S SUCCESSION PROBLEM AS THE MISSING LINK IN EUROPE’S POST-WAR SECURITY ARCHITECTURE
This article examines Belarus’s place in Europe’s post-war security architecture, tracing Minsk’s geopolitical manoeuvring since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Although Lukashenka has been able to keep the regime afloat, it remains vulnerable, because the system is built around one person and lacks a functioning succession mechanism, which Russia could exploit in the coming transition…
