Diplomacy and External Affairs

The Taliban’s new lows show they haven’t changed

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-talibans-new-lows-show-they-havent-changed/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Weekly%20The%20Strategist&utm_content=Weekly%20The%20Strategist+CID_cbb368f30118170ecaa68fd9464ecb24&utm_source=CampaignMonitor&utm_term=The%20Talibans%20new%20lows%20show%20they%20havent%20changed

China’s Influence in Southeastern Central, and Eastern Europe

https://carnegieendowment.org/files/202110-Brattberg_et_al_EuropeChina_final.pdf

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/

Biden Can’t Paper Over the West’s Disunity

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/03/biden-nato-summit-russia-invasion-ukraine/627598/