What John Mearsheimer gets wrong about Ukraine
The great-power realist lets theory get in the way of fact.
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Nato (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) is an intergovernmental military alliance with 31 member states from Europe and North America. It was founded in 1949 with twelve members, including the US and the UK, committed to a principle of collective defence.
Guns, grain, and history
The decline in Polish-Ukrainian relations will determine Europe’s political future.
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Should Rishi Sunak be a diplomat?
International relations is one of the few arenas in which the Prime Minister can say he’s been moderately successful.
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Old Europe is dead
The war in Ukraine has broken the Franco-German axis that once defined Europe as the UK and Poland take charge.
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Noam Chomsky: Russia is fighting more humanely than the US did in Iraq
The US linguist on the war in Ukraine, how the West is provoking China and why the UK is “not…
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China’s wolf-warrior diplomacy is pushing it closer to Russia
The Chinese ambassador to France said that ex-Soviet states don’t have an “effective status under international law”.
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Why has Finland joined Nato?
Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine catalysed the most significant security restructure in northern Europe for decades.
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The meaning of Sanna Marin’s defeat
As with Jacinda Ardern, the Finnish prime minister’s international fame disguised her domestic woes.
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With Belarus, Vladimir Putin continues his nuclear blackmail
Russia’s announcement that it will station nuclear weapons in its neighbouring country is intended to put pressure on the West.
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Europe’s Iron Lady: Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas
The Baltic leader has become the EU’s strongest advocate for an uncompromising response to Russia.
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Hungary is the main roadblock to Finland and Sweden’s Nato membership
Following Turkey’s lead, Viktor Orbán is discovering his own power to twist circumstances to Hungary’s advantage.
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Will Ukraine run out of ammunition?
Complacency and budget cuts have depleted western reserves since the Cold War.
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In the face of Russia’s aggression, global alliances have proven their indispensability
In 2019 Emmanuel Macron declared that Nato had suffered a “brain death”, but in Munich world leaders showed otherwise.
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How Putin lost the energy war
European gaspolitik has defeated Russia this winter.
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How a bestselling novel reveals French sympathy for Putin
The Wizard of the Kremlin has provoked fierce debate in France, where support for Russia lingers on both the right…
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What would foreign policy look like in a Labour government?
David Lammy’s priorities appear similar to Rishi Sunak’s – the difference is he may be able to actually deliver them.
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Ukraine is not a proxy war
It is Kyiv – not the West – which has set Ukraine’s war aims.
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Why Ukraine’s designs on Crimea could split the West
Some allies fear threatening to retake the peninsula could provoke a nuclear attack.
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Nato’s taboo of not sending tanks to Ukraine is slowly being broken
The West’s military aid to Ukraine is getting heavier and heavier.
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The Ukraine war has made predictions futile
Russia can’t win its self-evidently stupid war – and working out what will happen next is almost impossible.
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