Whatever the reason for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the west and Russia have been spoiling for a fight for decades. The war must end before it leads to a global conflagration.
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Vladimir Putin is playing a long game by not formally declaring war. It may be to avoid international escalation.
Russia is walking away from the last remaining treaty designed to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Ukraine’s constitutional democracy requires any peace deal to be ratified by its people. If they are ignored, a stable peace deal is far less likely.
Putin’s announcement to Russia will no longer participate in the New START pauses the last remaining nuclear weapons agreement between the U.S. and Russia.
The US and dozens of other nations have punished Russia with round after round of sanctions – yet the Russian economy is expected to grow in 2023.
For a scholar who studies how different generations reacted to the end of the Soviet empire, the war in Ukraine is a collision of the professional and the personal.
A new book argues the war against Ukraine is an escalation of an ongoing hybrid war of ‘Russia’ against ‘the West’ – and that only ‘real and credible force’ will make Putin step back from aggression.
Since Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, more and more Ukrainians say that they feel pride for their country.
One year into a conflict in Europe that many thought impossible, we are likely about to rediscover just how world-shaping wars can be.
The message is clear: this war must end in Ukraine and the west will do all it can to ensure this outcome.
A year into the war in Ukraine, a historian reflects on how it has affected the geopolitical environment.
Calls have erupted to cancel two writers from Adelaide Writers’ Week – including from South Australia’s Opposition leader. Why? And are they justified? Denis Muller weighs the evidence.
A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past week.
Calls for peace that suggest Ukraine should give up territory simply to end the war will condemn some Ukrainians to unspeakable horrors and provide a precarious foundation for lasting peace.
Russian soldiers are often barely trained and are not the highly trained operatives that some experts expected.
Because of the west’s fear that the war might escalate, it is effectively forcing Ukraine to fight with one hand tied behind its back.
Political scientists weigh in the factors that could see a Ukrainian or Russian win. The war could also become protracted.
Reports of a planned coup in Moldova have revived fears about the Kremlin’s intentions for Ukraine’s pro-European neighbour.
The Wagner Group has become a tool to further Russian objectives in Africa without attracting the scrutiny that regular military units would.
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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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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Lecturer in Modern European History, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University
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Assistant Professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross
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Senior Lecturer in Military Strategy and Law, University of Portsmouth
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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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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Oxford
