The aim of this double panel is to understand divergent assessments of the Russian war on Ukraine from the perspective of global history. Focusing on intellectual and journalistic accounts of the war, the papers examine the extent to which perceptions of the war confirm, reactivate, modify, or challenge and change transregional ties and solidarities as well as notions of global order that predate the war itself. At the same time, they ask how the interpretation of global interdependencies influences the assessment of the war and vice versa. The first panel, entitled 'Contested Pasts and Claims to justice', will present case studies on Ukraine, the post-Yugoslav region, and perceptions of international law and the UN in terms of justice and peace. This will be followed by a roundtable on 'Competing Ideas of Decoloniality', which will discuss interpretations of the war inspired by decolonial approaches, as formulated in Ukraine and the so-called Global South. The empirical findings presented and discussed in the double panel were collected as part of the project 'Rethinking the Global in Times of War on Ukraine. Interventions from around the World', conducted at EEGA Leipzig.