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Tag: Ukraine

What the concert hall attack means for the Russian leader's future.

Rajan Menon

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On stopping the fighting and building the peace.

Rajan Menon

On stopping the fighting and building the peace.

Rajan Menon

Germany has responded to war in Ukraine with huge increases in defense spending, marking a new wave of militarization.

Stephen Milder

Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.

David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky

To discern why we fight, we should ask why we do not.

Chris Blattman

As the war continues with no end in sight, the country’s ability to prevail at the front will depend on how badly the war damages life on the ground.

Rajan Menon

The legal doctrine of "superior responsibility" makes the Russian president liable for war crimes committed in Ukraine.

Feisal G. Mohamed

For decades, UK-based financial institutions have exploited loopholes to subvert regulations and shield the wealthy from scrutiny.

Oliver Bullough, Daniel Penny

The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.

Raj Patel

The commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.

Max Haiven

Poland and Russia both think of Ukraine as a seat of authentic Slavic culture. Józef Czapski’s war memoir highlights how this has often clashed with Ukraine’s independence.

Marta Figlerowicz

Condemning Putin's war must go hand in hand with imagining a more just security order.

Rajan Menon

On the importance of women’s studies after the USSR collapsed, and what it helps us understand about Putin’s war on Ukraine.

Irina Zherebkina

How the Kremlin weaponizes “traditional values,” portraying LGBT rights as existential threats to the nation.

Emil Edenborg

The mystical connection between white Southern nostalgia, the global family values movement, and Russia.

Bethany Moreton
Selected by The New York Times as one of the best reads for context on the current conflict, our book on the unwinding of the post–Cold War order is now available for all to read.
Eugene Rumer, Rajan Menon

The war in Ukraine is shaped by global neoliberalism, sexism, and racism—not just Cold War dynamics.

Ileana Nachescu
Putin's war in Ukraine breaks the rules, but powerful states always do. Far from dying, a just global order remains to be built.
Simon Waxman
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