Diplomacy and External Affairs
Why the US and Nato have long wanted Russia to attack Ukraine
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2022/03/30/why-the-us-and-nato-have-long-wanted-russia-to-attack-ukraine/
Ukraine’s EU Membership and the Geostrategy of Democratic Self-Preservation
https://carnegieeurope.eu/2022/03/30/ukraine-s-eu-membership-and-geostrategy-of-democratic-self-preservation-pub-86771?utm_source=carnegieemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=announcement&mkt_tok=MDk1LVBQVi04MTMAAAGDgyXoQTiPJmP_hkepMEp6C6tA5CEiPDf3hXXf-wROy5HSrfvPUstD8g55EJwl_xZdAxOZ1sOtPlki0oJOHlCuz51oaXyqTrMI5IccF4eTz4LE
What is behind Russia’s interest in a warming Arctic?
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/3/28/what-is-behind-russias-interest-in-a-warming-arctic
How Russia is pursuing state capture in Africa
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2022/03/21/how-russia-is-pursuing-state-capture-in-africa-ukraine-wagner-group/
‘A Bridge Too Far’ – Even the most ardent advocates of NATO expansion after the implosion of the USSR realized that it had limits—and one of those limits was Ukraine.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/04/07/a-bridge-too-far-not-one-inch-m-e-sarotte/
Biden Can’t Paper Over the West’s Disunity
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/03/biden-nato-summit-russia-invasion-ukraine/627598/
“Ceux qui tuent le plus ne sont peut-être pas ceux qu’on montre du doigt” Bertrand Scholler
https://www.francesoir.fr/videos-lentretien-essentiel/bertrand-scholler
Trump was right, Merkel was wrong – and it’s made it harder to save Ukraine
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-merkel-germany-ukraine-war-b2041226.html
Repackaging Pandora: How Russia’s information apparatus is handling a massive leak of data on offshore finance
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/10/08/repackaging-pandora-how-russias-information-apparatus-is-handling-a-massive-leak-of-data-on-offshore-finance/?msclkid=972a732bab4c11eca6c2a7b37addf9aa
Putin’s new Ukraine essay reveals imperial ambitions
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-new-ukraine-essay-reflects-imperial-ambitions/