On paper, Russia’s military outmatches its Ukrainian rival. But better training, strategy and battlefield decisions have helped Ukrainian forces keep Russian troops at bay.
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‘Vlad the mad’ psychological analyses don’t help us understand Russia’s war. Historians gain insights by examining the enabling and determining factors behind why conflicts erupt.
May 9 this year is “no victory day” as Putin has little to show after 74 days of aggression against Ukraine.
Western officials say that Russia may officially declare war on Ukraine on May 9. An international relations expert explains why this day is significant, and why a war declaration would matter.
World War II has a central place in Russian nationalism. Its importance is written all over a new cathedral dedicated to the armed forces.
A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
Russia is raising the stakes with upgraded ballistic missiles and blood-curdling threats from the Kremlin
The US has frozen tens of billions of dollars worth of assets belonging to Russians and their government. A legal scholar explains why confiscating them is a bit trickier.
When it comes to war crimes in Ukraine, the Kremlin is intimately following the Syrian playbook. To prevent further atrocities, leaders must now draw the lessons from the conflict in Western Asia.
Has Putin hurt Russia by jolting Europe’s shift away from fossil fuels into high gear?
A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
Russia and the west have failed to see eye-to-eye over Ukraine. It’s a disconnect that goes back two decades or more.
Military tensions and political concern are heating up in Transnistria, a breakaway state of Moldova that borders Ukraine. An Eastern European expert answers four key questions about this region.
A young woman in Lviv, Ukraine, writes about fleeing Russian aggression not once, but twice, since 2014 and explains the fierce desire to stay in her home country – a desire shared by many.
Research shows that Europe’s far right has deep ideological and practical ties to Putin’s Russia.
Ukrainian fighters are utilizing a maze of tunnels in Mariupol and other key cities. The use of the underground in conflict has a rich history.
As Russia prepares to take more Ukrainian territory, Moldova could be next on Putin’s target list.
The next five years are going to be harder than Emmanuel Macron’s first term.
Putin’s war is being portrayed as an attack on democracy in a country where the notion of democratic values is a deeply divisive issue.
Ukraine appeared not to matter much to the US and other Western countries. It wasn’t a vital interest. Russia’s war has redefined Ukraine’s status with the West.
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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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 Military History, University of Calgary
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Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University
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Lecturer in Modern European History, Queen's University Belfast
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations, Simon Fraser University
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Senior Lecturer in Military Strategy and Law, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
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Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science, Penn State
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Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, University of Bath
