Analytical articles

The new stage of the Ukrainian crisis will have global consequences. For some, it will bring short and medium-term costs, and very significant ones. For many, however, it will create opportunities to…

To Moscow, Russian security will never be American security reimagined. Simply put, Russian security cannot be anti-Russian

Dialogue, diplomacy and negotiations are the only acceptable route to resolving the conflict in a way that can stand the test of time

Lack of democratic legitimacy must be grappled with – not only for the European Union as an elitist project but also for other multilateral organizations that perform regulatory functions

For the first time, Tokyo calls Russia’s actions “aggression”  

Putin’s move has been dubbed a “war of choice” by the U.S. administration—in fact, Russia’s military retaliation has been forced on it by the U.S. Russia’s primary concern now is to…

The bottom line is that the costs far outweigh the benefits, which is what underlies our bleak assessment of the current scenario

The sanctions signal the strategy of economic eviction and dramatic abandonment of the West’s earlier strategy of a truly globalized capitalist economy, in which Russia and China are stakeholders

Numerous visits of Western leaders to Moscow on the eve of the crisis are among the foreign policy failures, and the Russian side failed to persuade anything, with political and diplomatic compromise…

Turkey’s political plans for Central Asia appear to be largely hyperbolic and not viable in the long run

The latest developments on the Ukrainian case will undoubtedly have far-reaching ramifications—for the Russian-Ukrainian relations and, more broadly, for security in Europe and globally

Closer Sino-Russian alignment is mainly driven by a shared feeling of facing Western military and normative pressure, resulting in a growing identification of each other as desirable and…