
Joseph Roth’s lessons for Putin’s Russia
A century ago The Radetzky March captured the break-up of Austria-Hungary. Could it also predict the fall of Vladimir Putin’s…
ByDiscover the latest New Statesman content on Russia, exploring the politics, culture and economy of the nation. Insightful coverage and analysis of the war in Ukraine and Putin’s presidency.
A century ago The Radetzky March captured the break-up of Austria-Hungary. Could it also predict the fall of Vladimir Putin’s…
ByIf it wants long-term Western support, Kyiv needs to show that it has a coherent war strategy.
ByWorld powers are struggling to work out what their authority means.
BySimply “not losing” in Ukraine is not enough for Russia.
ByHubris and ignorance might prove decisive in its proxy wars in Ukraine and Israel, and in its economic contest with…
ByIn Belgrade there is tension between liberal émigrés and the more pro-Putin locals, but there is hope too.
ByWhy the path to peace is shorter in Gaza than Ukraine.
ByWhat the persistent rumours about the Russian president’s health do and do not tell us about the country’s future.
ByThe conflict has had a similar – but less pronounced – effect on oil and gas markets as Russia’s invasion.
ByVladimir Putin returns to Beijing at a tense geopolitical moment.
ByThe great-power realist lets theory get in the way of fact.
ByThe decline in Polish-Ukrainian relations will determine Europe’s political future.
ByHow the American realist became the world’s most hated thinker.
ByThis was never a serious strategy for restoring Ukrainian sovereignty.
ByThe Nobel Peace Prize-winning anti-nuclear campaigner on the false promise of deterrence and Oppenheimer.
ByThe Second Cold War is underway – can the US prevail?
ByThe two leaders not only need each other, they also now share a worldview.
ByWhat Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin’s deepening relationship reveals about the emerging international order.
ByThe two dictators considered themselves engaged in a life-and-death struggle with Western imperialism – and retaliated with their own plans…
ByThe war in Ukraine can’t be compared to Vietnam.
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