Category: Europe & Central Asia
48 Articles
- Europe & Central Asia
Putin’s Peril: Incongruence And Strategic Adaptation
Military means must not be considered separately from the political ends they serve. This political-military maxim is both elementary and often ignored. In an…
March 30, 2022
- Europe & Central Asia
- Middle East & North Africa
A New Russian Strategic Calculus? Analyzing the Viability of JCPOA Negotiations
Underneath the central crisis of its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is more subtly challenging global security. Most recently, Russian attempts to hijack negotiations around the…
March 29, 2022
- Europe & Central Asia
- Terrorism & Transnational Threats
Putin’s Hitmen: How Mercenaries Serve the Kremlin at the Expense of Stability
Volodymyr Zelensky sits in a chair next to the podium as he conducts a press conference, wearing the olive-green military clothing that has now come to symbolize his defiant…
March 28, 2022
- Europe & Central Asia
- Race & Security
Democracy, Race, And Ukraine
The Russian violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty has brought the former Eastern Bloc country to the forefront of news cycles. Democratic countries standing up to the autocratic…
March 25, 2022
- Europe & Central Asia
- Gender, Identity, and Security
The Mystique Of The Female Soldier: Portrayals Of Ukrainian Women In Western Media
The conflict in Ukraine is one of the largest Europe has seen since World War II. While warfare has changed a lot in 80 years, the way we perceive women’s roles in wartime has…
March 15, 2022
- Defense
- Europe & Central Asia
Why Putin Pulled The Trigger
On February 24 at around 5:00 AM local time, Russian forces invaded Ukraine. This should be unsurprising given the widespread media and government coverage…
March 8, 2022
- Europe & Central Asia
Trauma, Beyond Belief: The Generational Impact of War On Ukrainian Children
Ukrainian people feared every day Russia could invade, and that fear unfortunately became reality. Media coverage primarily discusses military action and geopolitical,…
March 7, 2022
- Europe & Central Asia
We Are All Realists Now
For weeks leading up to the invasion and even in the hours afterward, the crisis in Ukraine was flattened into an academic debate, abstracted into a case to be studied. The most…
February 24, 2022