For the sake of Ukraine, the opportunity, however slim, to cooperate with China on stopping Russia’s aggression should not be discarded out of hand.
Geopolitics in Eastern Europe
Ukraine: how negotiations could stop the war and what needs to happen first
Creating the conditions for negotiations is not the same as creating the conditions for their success, as eight years of unsuccessful attempts to bring peace to eastern Ukraine sadly testify.
The First Days of War
Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine is difficult to understand and impossible to justify within the bounds of normal rationality.
Breakthrough in Ukraine talks is a win-win situation, especially for Russia
A new status quo in the post-Soviet space is obviously in the making, and it has a distinctively Russian flavour to it.
Is the West powerless to stop the Russian aggression against Ukraine?
Rather than simply buying into our own rhetoric of a norms- and values-based international society, we must be prepared to back up such rhetoric with credible policies to protect these norms and values and abide by them ourselves.
All eyes on Russia as Ukraine hurtles towards civil war
The Ukrainian government has announced that it will mount a full-scale military operation to regain control of the east of the country and has set a deadline of 6am on Monday morning for occupied government buildings to be evacuated by armed protesters. An emergency session of the United Nations Security Council late on Sunday night failed to calm a situation that has significantly deteriorated over the past few days.
Ukraine veers closer to collapse
All hope is not lost for Ukraine quite yet, but the window of opportunity for local crisis management is rapidly closing.
Are Moldova and Transnistria next on Moscow’s to-do-list?
The West should send a much clearer message to Moscow and back it up with credible policy. The question, however, is whether policy makers from Berlin to Brussels, London and Washington think that Moldova is worth such a tougher line.
Can the US and Russia talk their way out of crisis in Ukraine?
More constructive dialogue between Russia and the West would possibly enable a face-saving way out of the current deadlock. This would serve both sides in the new great game over influence in Eastern Europe, but Russia would be the clear winner, and Ukraine the first victim of this new geopolitics.