As Poland prepares for a possible escalation of the war in Ukraine, it has welcomed Ukrainian refugees with open arms. However, refugees from the Global South have been met with barbed wire and walls.
The war in Ukraine has produced a wave of xenophobia regarding Russia, Russians and everything associated with Russian culture. It is encouraged by opportunistic politicians, transmitted by the media and apparently broadly adhered by entire populations.
With Vladimir Putin evoking Peter the Great, it is clear that Russian imperialism is alive and kicking. Neighbors fled to NATO precisely to avoid the sharp claws of the Russian bear. After 1991, the West did not expand east. Instead, Eastern Europe moved west.
An inquiry into the exclusionist metaphors of the radical right Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR)
Today, two CIA analysts reflect on recent history and examine the prospects for achieving the State Department’s goals in Ukraine conflict.
Impunity for US war crimes casts a long dark shadow over the West’s response to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
There is a link between failing to stand up to violations of international law, abuse of human rights and suppression of freedom of expression.
When the world's largest consumer of fossil fuels teams up with one of the world's largest suppliers, the planet is the biggest loser.
William Butler Yeats famously wrote that “the center cannot hold” while observing a civilization declining into chaos between two world wars. In today’s chaos, can a multipolar world take its place?
The end of the INF Treaty questions the global role of NATO in a multipolar world at a time where it struggles with a new power competition.
