Abstract
In this paper I introduced the concept of interregnum as a period after the conclusion of a historical epoch. I described the first phase of the interregnum, which can be dated back to the end of the 1970s or, in our area, to 1989.
There are still some stabilizing elements that form "core patterns" within postmodernism, neoliberalism and liberal democracy, which were the cultural, political and economic dominant forces at the time. I have explained the reasons why the first decade of the new millennium is witnessing the emergence of a second phase of interregnum in which the core formulas are breaking down and hybrid formations are filling the scene.
I hypothesized that a third period of interregnum is coming, in which these hybrid formations (e.g. Putin's ideology) acquire sharply defined boundaries, and thus acquire a conflict potential that turns into a real war.