by philip whiteside, international news reporter the war in ukraine is of a kind the world has never seen before. while there have been many brutal conflicts since the end of the second world war, ukraine has had all of the violence but has been carried out in the hi-tech age - makin...
"Like the war in Ukraine," explained Usman, connecting the conflict 6,000 miles away directly with his own country's suffering. "How else do you explain that Russia is under sanctions, but their economy remains unaffected. It's like witchcraft!" David Otto, of the Geneva Centre fo...
Like the coronavirus crisis before it, the Ukraine war is unlikely to be the last global systemic shock with the potential to derail climate action. There will be other crises, and we can’t keep kicking the climate can down the road at every crisis. We need to develop a plan now, one...
The passing of 1 year since the beginning of the second stage of the war in Ukraine caused by Russian aggression and the resulting influx of war refugees1 to Poland and other European countries is the right time for the first summaries. Poland is one of the countries that has very quickly...
“Ukraine is just a tool. It is the struggle for the sovereignty of the heartland – this is the big game.” Realignment in a world of change Crooke notes that the old political tropes no longer function. “What is left or right anymore?” he says. “When [...
“The research was completed prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Our first thoughts are with the Ukrainian people and indeed with all of those caught up in the war,” stated Anderson. “But the rocketing oil and gas prices only serve to strengthen the c...
no longer allowed to express opinions about the Ukraine war, limited traffic on major video platforms, almost equivalent to a complete ban on the Internet, a persistent test of personal courage and physical and mental health, besides the glorious self-sacrifice, there is no and cannot be an...
Before the war, Yevgeniya told Meduza, they and Alexey were planning to finish their landscaping work — they’d already dug a hole for a pond. Alexey wanted to go on a motorcycle trip around western Ukraine and had already bought camping gear: tents, sleeping bags, and dishes (which the...
Russia’s multi-pronged invasion of Ukraine has thrust the country into a conflict that many on the European continent had thought was one for the history books. Now the country is in the throes of war, with a humanitarian disaster unfolding.
this war might be brought to a close. Unfortunately, the Ukraine war, as you’ll hear, bears many of the hallmarks of a conflict that’s destined to go on for some time. I began our discussion by asking Hein Goemans to give me an outline of what war termination theory is all about...