On January 1st Ukraine’s President Zelensky welcomed 2023 with the words, "Happy New Year! The year of our victory!’ Instead, as we approach year’s...
War Without End? / Svitlana Morenets
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Getting Russia Right / Thomas Graham
Thomas Graham on how to cope with Russia today as well as tomorrow. Winston Churchill famously said that Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery...
SPOTLIGHT: War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things
The war between Israel and Hamas is a classic “lose/lose” proposition: there can be no winners, with a range of outcomes that stretch from bad...
Russia: Dead Man Walking?
At the end of June the world witnessed the extraordinary sight of the paramilitary Russian Wagner Group literally marching on Moscow, allegedly not...
“When you strike at a king, you must kill him” / Yevgenia Albats
Yevgenia Albats, a journalist in forced exile from Russia, thinks that Prigozhin is a “dead man walking.” Maybe Putin, too. A few days ago the world...
Georgia on My Mind / Nino Evgenidze
Russia's invasion of Ukraine seems likely to be one of those seminal events that will divide our future histories: BI and AI. That's obviously true...
Welcome to the Post-Kissinger Middle East
In the 1970’s Henry Kissinger argued that the goal of America’s Middle Eastern policy was to persuade the Arabs that the road to peace ran through...
What’s Love Got to Do With It? Building a Different Middle East / Gilles Kepel
Over the last several months, there have been a series of extraordinary developments in the Middle East that could have almost as big an impact on...
India’s Back to the Future Moment?
India has always been difficult for non-Indians to understand, maybe for many Indians as well. Sheer size and diversity make governance, never mind...