Tag: Russia
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Ukraine: will Putin’s war alienate his many admirers on Europe’s far right?
Toby Greene, Bar-Ilan University A key moment in the final French presidential debate between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, before the recent election, was when Macron attacked his challenger on her links to Russia. “You cannot defend the interests of France,” he said, adding: “When you speak to Russia … you are talking to […]
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Russia is now reliant on heavy artillery in Ukraine
Alexander Hill, University of Calgary Vladimir Putin had clearly hoped his invasion of Ukraine would be over quickly and not involve prolonged fighting for large cities. Putin and other Russian leaders know well the high cost of fighting for cities, both from Soviet and recent Russian history. While there is talk of a peace deal […]
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How Russia is using intellectual property as a war tactic
Enrico Bonadio, City, University of London and Alina Trapova, University of Nottingham As part of its deadly assault on Ukraine, Russia has taken the rare step to use intellectual property rights as a war tactic. In early March, the Russian government issued a decree saying that Russian companies are no longer obliged to compensate owners […]
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Ukraine war: people are fighting and dying for Vladimir Putin’s flawed version of history
Félix Krawatzek, University of Oxford and George Soroka, Harvard University Vladimir Putin invoked history to justify his country’s invasion of Ukraine. To cement that message at home, his regime is feeding domestic audiences propaganda insisting that the Russian army fights “against Nazism” across the globe. In a bid to ensure this message takes root among […]
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Ukraine war and anti-Russia sanctions on top of COVID-19 mean even worse trouble lies ahead for global supply chains
Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University Francis Fukuyama, the American political scientist who once described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the “end of history,” suggested that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine might be called “the end of the end of history.” He meant that Vladimir Putin’s aggression signals a rollback of the ideals of a […]
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Ukraine war follows decades of warnings that NATO expansion into Eastern Europe could provoke Russia
Ronald Suny, University of Michigan As fighting rages across Ukraine, two versions of reality that underlie the conflict stare across a deep divide, neither conceding any truth to the other. The more widespread and familiar view in the West, particularly in the United States, is that Russia is and has always been an expansionist state, […]
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Russia invades Ukraine – 5 essential reads from experts
Naomi Schalit This is a frightening moment. Russia has invaded Ukraine, and certainly those most frightened right now are the people of Ukraine. But violent aggression – a war mounted by a country with vast military resources against a smaller, weaker country – strikes fear in all of us. As a Washington Post headline writer […]
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Ukraine crisis: Putin recognizes breakaway regions, Biden orders limited sanctions – 5 essential reads
Naomi Schalit, The Conversation Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a provocative address that could be construed as a pretext to war, claimed on Feb. 21, 2022, that all of Ukraine belongs to Russia and formally recognized the independence of two breakaway regions in Ukraine that are largely controlled by Moscow-backed separatists. His government then ordered […]