Russia insists that there was an agreement not to expand Nato eastwards after the end of the USSR. History begs to differ.
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Former BBC reporter James Rodgers reflects on the end of the Soviet Union and finds lessons for today.
The sketchy history of international efforts to control bioweapons suggests that nations will resist cooperative monitoring of gene hacking for medical research.
With tensions between China and New Zealand’s main security allies increasing dangerously, could Jacinda Ardern play the role of peacemaker?
Today’s concentration of power in the Russian presidency has its roots in the chaos of the 1990s.
Putin’s rule has defined what political power means in post-Soviet Russia, with important consequences for the rest of the world.
The crisis over alleged Russian involvement in a murder attempt on a spy and his daughter in the UK has been called an extension of the Cold War. But that war was about ideology; this crisis isn’t.
Wars in Chechnya and Iraq affected the stories American and Russian leaders tell about their place in the world.
Boris Nemtsov’s warning about the festering bureaucratic corruption under Putin made him powerful enemies.
While Russia faces global disapproval over its role in Ukraine, president Vladimir Putin has trouble brewing at home. A shared sense of nationalist fervour had helped to underpin an approval rating that…
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Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, International Development, School of Government, University of Birmingham
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Reader in International Journalism, City, University of London
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, University of Bath
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Associate professor of public law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor of the Practice of Politics and Crown Family Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
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Professor of Military History, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor of International Business, University of South Carolina
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Monash University
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Co-Director, Centre For Media Transition, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, King's College London
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Professor of Political Science and Policy Studies, Elon University
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