China’s need for allies is driven by its worry about neighbouring North Korea and concern about western dominance.
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Polish public support for resettling Ukrainian refugees has slipped in recent months, while many new arrivals have had difficulty finding work that aligns with their qualifications.
Why is there such a Russian focus on the Second World War? Because it’s used to justify authoritarian states, the rule of dictators like Putin and Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko.
Some Belarusians have even become directly involved in the conflict to support the Ukrainians.
Liberated cities are prone to vigilante justice against those accused of conspiring with the enemy.
The West no longer has credibility when it criticizes Russia, China or any other state for human rights abuses or breaches of international law due to its feeble response to Israel’s assault on Gaza.
The Ukrainian president has called for another half a million troops this year and his government has introduced strict conscription laws in an attempt to deter draft-dodging.
In war time, the type of conflict determines what formal rules of war apply. But how to determine the nature of the conflict?
After nearly two years of bloody battle, there are signs that both sides are nearing exhaustion and might be prepared, for now, to accept a stalemate and an end to the fighting.
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Professor of International Relations, Jean Monnet Professor of European Security, National University Odesa Law Academy
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor of International Relations and Political Science, St. Thomas University (Canada)
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Professor of Practice in Sociology, University of San Diego
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor, Russian and East European History, University of Alberta
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Senior Research Fellow, Charles Darwin University
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Assistant Professor, SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Warsaw School of Economics
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Assistant Professor of Business Economics, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor, Opole University of Technology
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Assistant Professor, Political Studies, University of Manitoba
