What Young Ukrainians Are Fighting For
By Vera Mironova and guest contributor Sam Whitt Answering the Call to Arms in Ukraine What compels ordinary…
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The Chinese Government is Losing the Tech War Against Hong Kong Protesters
By Barbara F. Walter This past week the Chinese Government took a cue from Putin’s playbook. Just as…
Irregular Forces in Ukraine
Guest post by Sabine C. Carey and Neil J. Mitchell With the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17,…
There Will Be No Civil War in Ukraine, And Putin Knows It
By Barbara F. Walter Last Wednesday Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Ukraine “is as close to…
The Crimea Crisis and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Guest post by Ehud Eiran A Russian-French confrontation in the Holy Land in the middle of the 19th century…
Fleet Weak
By Lionel Beehner There is much talk of Russia as a rising naval power, with its seizure of Crimea,…
Will Crimea Usher in a New Interventionist Order?
By Lionel Beehner Maybe Vladimir Putin is onto something. Last week he boldly claimed to a cheering throng…
Is Crimea’s Ethnic Conflict Banal?
By Will H. Moore Fourteen years ago John Mueller published a provocative, and in my view, valuable article…
The Annexation Vexation
Guest post by Boaz Atzili To annex or not to annex? That is Putin’s question. Such a question, of…
Questions and Answers About Crimea and Secession
By Bridget Coggins After asking if commenters had questions about Crimea’s potential separation from Ukraine under its occupation by Russian military…