Search Results for: Ukraine
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Stefan Hedlund: The disillusionment and hope of Western sanctions against Russia
Western sanctions against Russia have fallen short due to inconsistent implementation and Moscow’s ability to find alternative supply lines.
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Andrew Kureth: Why the Ukraine conflict really does matter to the U.S.
Opponents of Ukraine aid often fail to grasp the extent to which a Russian victory would weaken the United States.
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Peter Brookes: How F-16s could change the war in Ukraine
While F-16 fighter jets are unlikely to deliver Ukrainian air superiority against Russian invaders, the aircraft will provide a powerful new advantage to Kyiv’s forces.
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Carole Nakhle: Why Angola left OPEC
As OPEC strived to prop up oil prices with production limits for its members, Angola was caught between the organization’s policies and its own interests.
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Lord David Alton of Liverpool: At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership?
History teaches us that isolationism leads to disaster. Will the United States and Europe choose a different path at this critical juncture?
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Pawel Kowal: A Central European perspective on EU strategic autonomy
Europe’s strategic vulnerabilities will not be rapidly overcome. But they need to be addressed, or a rift will grow between European countries.
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Prashanth Parameswaran: The future of Europe’s Southeast Asia engagement
Relations between Southeast Asia and Europe have evolved on many fronts, and will likely keep developing despite geopolitical tensions.
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Prince Michael of Liechtenstein: Erdogan’s leadership is based on pragmatism
The president of Turkey has a consistent record of foreign policy effectiveness in a complex region.
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Carole Nakhle: European gas markets: Post-war outlook
The disruption of Russian gas pipeline supplies to Europe has created a short-term opportunity for LNG growth, but EU targets for the long term look more aspirational than realistic.
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Vahan P. Roth: How the real cause of inflation has become a moving target
By shifting the blame for inflation from the pandemic to war in Ukraine and other causes, we miss the obvious culprit: the decreasing value of money itself.
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John Polga-Hecimovich: Ecuador: Organized crime threatens the state
A rise in drug trafficking is destabilizing state institutions and the economy. The government is addressing the challenge with “iron fist” measures.
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Teresa Nogueira Pinto: Turkey’s push for influence in Africa is working
Ankara’s many-sided approach to cooperation with Africa is bearing fruit.
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Paul Schwennesen: The U.S. Republican schism on Ukraine
The current American debate over funding for Ukraine’s war effort exposes a fundamental divide among conservatives, with potentially dire consequences for Kyiv.
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Peter Brookes: The persistent threat of global terrorism
The world is likely to remain vulnerable to terror attacks, given emboldened state sponsors like Iran, fragile states like Afghanistan and opportune targets around elections in Europe and Asia.
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Federica Saini Fasanotti: Italy’s experiment: The Mattei Plan for Africa
Prime Minister Meloni wants to revolutionize Italy’s relationship with Africa. The plan has merits, but it would take more than one European country’s involvement to make it work.
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Ewa Björling: What Sweden will bring to NATO
Sweden’s inclusion in NATO will enhance the alliance’s strategic breadth and depth.
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Stefan Hedlund: Finland stands tall against Russia
NATO has expanded its Nordic membership, benefitting greatly from Finland’s provision of clear deterrence, but less so from Sweden which has some vulnerabilities to Russian threats.
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Prince Michael of Liechtenstein: Is a broader European war imminent?
Despite lots of tough talk from leaders of late, Europe is not ready for war. A swift rearming including private sector investment is the remedy.
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James Jay Carafano: The U.S. perspective on Black Sea security
American interests in a free and open Black Sea are enduring, but the level of engagement will be shaped by the war in Ukraine and the depth of the U.S. commitment to transatlantic security.
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Teresa Nogueira Pinto: The EU’s new plan to address irregular migration
Implementation of the European Union’s new Asylum and Migration Pact still requires difficult political compromises on national and EU levels. June elections to the European parliament will determine what is achievable.
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Prince Michael of Liechtenstein: The threat of war and its economic challenges
Europe has focused on the climate crisis and neglected military threats to its peril. Both needs can be met if it frees up its economy.
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Stefan Hedlund: A tough test for Georgian democracy
Voters in Georgia will cast votes this October with outsized geopolitical implications, either paving the way for regional democratic gains or a return of servility to Moscow.
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Enrico Colombatto: Public debt spells trouble for the U.S. economy
If growth slows and the U.S. government fails to cut public expenditures, an economic crisis will likely follow.
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Carole Nakhle: Oil markets: Relative stability amid geopolitical strife
Multiple factors stopped oil prices from hitting triple digits, contrary to what many forecasters had anticipated.
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Paul Schwennesen: Drones and asymmetric warfare in Ukraine and Israel
Attack drones are transforming modern battlefield operations, with today’s conflicts serving as laboratories for rapid innovation.
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Junhua Zhang: The burgeoning China-Russia axis
Bad news for Ukraine and the West: in 2023 Beijing crossed the Rubicon in China-Russia political, economic and military cooperation.
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Prashanth Parameswaran: Thailand’s foreign policy vision collides with reality
Thailand’s new prime minister has laid out an ambitious diplomatic agenda, but it will run up against domestic inertia and larger geopolitical dynamics.
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Pierre Boussel: Iran works to spread its revolutionary message
Tehran bides its time while churning out vitriol with a hegemonic vision: that its revolutionary ethos transcends time, defies the West and unites Islam.
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Michael Leigh: Elections and a challenging time for Europe
The European Union faces a difficult patch in 2024. In the extreme, some of its historical developments could be rolled back and eager policies diluted.
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Alper Coşkun: The shifting balance of power in the Black Sea
In contrast to the deadlocked land war, Ukraine’s tactics in the Black Sea have dealt Russia humiliating defeats, with Turkey emerging as the sea’s maritime power
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Prince Michael of Liechtenstein: When everything goes wrong
In his government’s latest display of diplomatic dysfunction, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has managed to snub Ukraine, critical allies France and Britain and his opposition at home.
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Prince Michael of Liechtenstein: Europe should focus on its own defense readiness, not on Trump
It is time for Europe to finally take its own defense seriously.
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Paul Schwennesen: Eyewitness to war: Why Chechens fight for Ukraine
While Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s followers are loyal to the Kremlin, other Chechens see the war as an opportunity to defeat Russia and regain independence.
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Peter Brookes: Russia’s strategy in sending tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus
The Kremlin’s move may be more saber-rattling, but it also heightens the security concerns of NATO members.
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Riley Walters: Why U.S.-China ‘soybean diplomacy’ is overhyped
Despite resurgent trade in the vital commodity, soybean sales between Washington and Beijing have more to do with markets than geopolitics.
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Matt Boyse: Germany remains in denial over its Russia policy
Despite Berlin’s much-touted foreign policy pivot after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, many German politicians have not learned their lessons or atoned for their past mistakes.
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Evgeny Gontmakher: China is not coming to Russia’s rescue
Despite their shared conflict with the West, China is keeping its distance from Russia militarily while capitalizing economically on energy sanctions against Moscow.
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Rudolf G. Adam: Beyond Russia’s war against Ukraine
With irreconcilable war aims between the combatants, the conflict will drag into 2024 and inflict more damage to the global economy and long-standing security arrangements.
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Paul Schwennesen: Eyewitness to war: Assessing the Ukrainian capacity to fight
The intensity of Ukraine’s resistance to Russia will likely remain strong for at least another year, but worrisome problems need to be solved.
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Colleen Graffy: Who will control the Black Sea?
Turkey and Russia have held sway for centuries over the inland waterway. But Moscow’s wartime blockades of Ukraine are prompting calls for stronger protection of navigation and revisions to a key agreement regulating passage of ships.
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Stefan Hedlund: Georgia’s future may hinge on Russia’s war in Ukraine
While Georgian society wants to be closer to Europe and regain its lost territories, pro-Russian leaders are positioning the Caucasus nation of 3.7 million people as a Kremlin ally.
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Stefan Hedlund: Moldova’s future is tied to Russia’s war in Ukraine
The tiny nation between Romania and Ukraine wants to join the European Union and regain control of its Kremlin-backed Transnistria region. Kyiv’s triumph could advance both aims.
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Pramit Pal Chaudhuri: As Russia’s war grinds on, India-U.S. relations set to strengthen
With the United States mostly overlooking India’s neutrality in Russia’s war on Ukraine, the prospects are encouraging for closer Washington-New Delhi ties.
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Pawel Kowal: Two Belaruses
Although Alexander Lukashenko has effectively surrendered Belarus’s sovereignty to Russia, a path remains for the democratic opposition in exile to restore independence.
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Stanislaw Koziej: NATO’s doctrine revolution
The 31-nation alliance is shifting its doctrine from a reactive stance to preemptive defense, prompted by Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Ivan Miklos: Why compromise with Putin is not the solution in Ukraine
Russia’s atrocities in Ukraine should have convinced the West by now that surrendering to selfish energy interests and Kremlin nuclear blackmail will have horrible consequences.
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Lord David Alton of Liverpool: Forever wars
Nations have sadly not renounced invasions or armed conflicts, requiring peace-seeking countries to strengthen alliances in hopes of preventing such violence.
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Karl-Peter Schwarz: In Central Europe, time may not be on Ukraine’s side
A Slovakian election could tilt its foreign policy toward Russia, like Hungary, leaving the Czech Republic as the only firm Ukraine ally among four small nations that include Austria.
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Peter Brookes: Ukraine’s long path to victory and NATO
While the 31-nation alliance is committed to arming Ukraine, NATO allies took the prospect of membership off the table until at least after the war.
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James Jay Carafano: U.S. China policy after Ukraine
President Biden’s China policy has emphasized continuity over assertiveness. Nothing appears likely to shake it out of this middling course except new circumstances.