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History tells us that neutrality rarely works as a mechanism for preventing conflict.
A woman reacts next to her house following a Russian rocket attack Feb. 25 in the Ukranian capital of the city of Kyiv.
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The reasons for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are complicated and based on centuries of history between the two countries. A Ukrainian scholar provides some background.
Soldiers with the 92nd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces conduct drills in northeastern Ukraine on Jan. 31, 2022.
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The days of Soviet bloc countries in Eastern Europe disappeared at the end of the Cold War nearly 30 years ago. It appears Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to start a new Cold War..
‘My fellow Russians’: Vladimir Putin makes his case to the Russian people.
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Putin’s latest speech revealed that the dispute with Ukraine is just part of his challenge to the current international order.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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During World War II, the US and USSR fought together to defeat the Nazis. When the war ended, the two superpowers began fighting each other.
A man with the Malian National flag joins a demonstration in Bamako after the military junta called for protests against sanctions imposed over delayed elections.
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Unimpressive democratic conditions and foreign influence in African countries make recent attempted and successful military takeovers unsurprising.
A man holds a sign on Parliament Hill to support trucks lined up in protest of COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions.
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‘Freedom convoy’ protesters are turning the language of freedom against their own governments. The implications and repercussions of this are enormous.
The Ukraine crisis is mobilising support across Europe.
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To remain neutral, Finland had to surrender power to the Soviet Union during the cold war.
In Georgia, the Board of Regents has given its universities the power to fire tenured professors without faculty input. Now some fear that academic freedom is threatened.
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As more countries flirt with democratic backsliding, we should all be concerned. We can look to academic freedom as a gauge.
Over there, over there (again).
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The Pentagon has announced that as many as 8,500 troops have been put on standby to be deployed in Europe as a counter to the threat of the Russian military buildup on Ukraine’s eastern border.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses a meeting of the SACP in 2015.
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The resort to armed struggle brought the Communist Party and the African National Congress much closer together during their time in exile.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Senegalese Foreign Minister Aissata Tall Sall in Dakar, Senegal.
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African countries should adopt measures that strategically play rivals against each other. They should implement long-term strategies and domestic policies for dealing with strategic partners.
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Tensions are high across the Taiwan Strait. But what are the origins of the relationship between China and Taiwan?
Efforts to reduce tensions between the Koreas, like the 2018 inter-Korean summit, are frequently the target of disinformation campaigns in South Korea.
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Disinformation is being privatized around the world. This new industry is built on a dangerous combination of cheap labor, high-tech algorithms and emotional national narratives.
Former South African President FW de Klerk photographed in Pretoria in 1989.
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FW de Klerk as National Party conservative was paradoxically the right leader at the right time to relinquish white minority rule.
Russia flaunts its strategic nuclear missiles during Victory Day parade rehearsals in 2019.
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African states have an important role to play in promoting a total ban on nuclear weapons.
Potential conflicts in space over resources can be prevented by a commitment to peaceful collaboration.
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As the space race is resumed, and expanded to include private corporations, it is more important than ever to lay the groundwork for peaceful collaboration.
The Taliban came to the fore during Afghanistan’s civil war that followed the Soviet pullout of 1989.
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A historian explains how the Taliban emerged out of the decades of chaos that followed the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan in 1978.
The U.S., Australia and New Zealand have been friends, partners and allies for decades.
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A 70-year-old Cold War-era treaty among the three nations is finding renewed importance in response to the global rise of Chinese power and influence.
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Soeharto’s rise to become the billionaire autocrat of the world’s fourth largest country would have seemed very unlikely in his childhood.