The slipperiness of ceasefire
Why the path to peace is shorter in Gaza than Ukraine.
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Revealed: how the City of London keeps Putin’s oil flowing
The Russian war machine is being helped by British companies.
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Vladimir Putin has no regrets
The Russian president feels vindicated in his belief that he can outlast the West in Ukraine.
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The new world disorder
A new binary of opposing powers has emerged, with the forces of chaos ranged against the West.
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Joseph Roth’s lessons for Putin’s Russia
A century ago The Radetzky March captured the break-up of Austria-Hungary. Could it also predict the fall of Vladimir Putin’s…
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What should Ukraine do next?
If it wants long-term Western support, Kyiv needs to show that it has a coherent war strategy.
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When is an empire not an empire?
World powers are struggling to work out what their authority means.
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Putin still wants to win
Simply “not losing” in Ukraine is not enough for Russia.
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The West’s dominance is a dangerous delusion
Hubris and ignorance might prove decisive in its proxy wars in Ukraine and Israel, and in its economic contest with…
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Serbia’s Russian revolution
In Belgrade there is tension between liberal émigrés and the more pro-Putin locals, but there is hope too.
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Is Vladimir Putin dead?
What the persistent rumours about the Russian president’s health do and do not tell us about the country’s future.
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The Israel-Hamas war threatens more energy price pain
The conflict has had a similar – but less pronounced – effect on oil and gas markets as Russia’s invasion.
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Russia and China still need each other
Vladimir Putin returns to Beijing at a tense geopolitical moment.
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What John Mearsheimer gets wrong about Ukraine
The great-power realist lets theory get in the way of fact.
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Guns, grain, and history
The decline in Polish-Ukrainian relations will determine Europe’s political future.
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The tragedy of John Mearsheimer
How the American realist became the world’s most hated thinker.
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The postmodern theatre of the Ukrainian counter-offensive
This was never a serious strategy for restoring Ukrainian sovereignty.
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Beatrice Fihn: “One day, someone will use nuclear weapons”
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning anti-nuclear campaigner on the false promise of deterrence and Oppenheimer.
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The last days of Pax Americana
The Second Cold War is underway – can the US prevail?
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Welcome to Putin and Kim’s parallel reality
The two leaders not only need each other, they also now share a worldview.
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