Russian hackers have been attacking Ukraine for years, but with help from US government agencies, businesses and universities, Ukraine’s cyber defenses have grown stronger.
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President Biden said that Vladimir Putin had committed war crimes, after news emerged of mass civilian murders in Bucha, Ukraine. Three stories from our archive explain what this means.
The US frequently chooses to put its own interest ahead of its professed values. That approach to foreign policy is called ‘realpolitik’ and it may lead to an unsatisfying peace deal in Ukraine.
Efforts to fight online disinformation often give oxygen to the very things they’re trying to fight.
Both the Russian and US arsenals boast thousands of nuclear weapons, located in various places around their own countries and, for the US, in Europe as well.
Decades of collaboration between Western and Russian universities have come to a halt because of the war in Ukraine. An expert on U.S.-Russia relations explains what’s at stake.
There are a few warning signs that genocide is happening. In the Russian war on Ukraine, all of those are present.
Past sanctions on Russia, including being expelled from another international forum, haven’t had the desired results. So why try the same thing again?
A career soldier and a careful scholar of the military profession, William Tecumseh Sherman knew that wars are part of human nature, and are unavoidably cruel and harsh.
The Conversation’s weekly round-up of some of the best articles about the war in Ukraine.
What would allow Vladimir Putin to save face in Ukraine in terms of negotiating a ceasefire? Ukraine would likely have to cede its NATO aspirations as well as territory in the east.
None of the available methods for holding Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable are likely to actually punish him, and they may even make new atrocities more likely.
How did a young risk-taking politician take complete control of Russia and destabilise Europe and the US?
While most people offering support to Ukrainians are well-intentioned, it’s not always the case. There are a reports of women and girls fleeing Ukraine being raped in their new countries.
The sanctions are likely to last beyond the current conflict. This may end up bringing about a solution to Africa’s desire to produce its own military hardware for its own use.
For Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the app has been a key point-of-contact for communication with his own people and the rest of the world.
The conflict highlights the folly of nations exiting nuclear power while continuing to use coal, gas and oil.
Russia is cracking down on freedom of speech and media. But other factors, like outside online information, could make it difficult to control war propaganda - and block out other information.
Personalist dictators tend to shield the elites who support them from the economic pain of sanctions by pushing costs onto regular people.
Geographers often talk about the ‘silences’ of maps – what’s missing and unseen. Those silences can be as meaningful as what’s shown.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, Affiliate Professor at the Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies, University of South Florida
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Professor of Military History, University of Calgary
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Founding Director, Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy West Point
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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 Political Science, Penn State
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science, Penn State
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Professor of International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Harvard University
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Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Senior Lecturer in International Law, The University of Western Australia
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Executive Director, University of Dayton Human Rights Center, University of Dayton
