Region: North America

Policy Brief #44 / 2022

The development of events we observe shows that one cannot count on wisdom in matters of international politics

What could be the strategy and policy of Russia in the current conditions, a year after the start of the special military operation in Ukraine?

The 65th anniversary of the significant arrangement in the history of Soviet-U.S. relations

Will there be a chain reaction of quagmires with the international order collapsing in the end?

The hope for a new type of international relations based on mutual benefit, unfortunately, is unlikely to materialise in the foreseeable future

Sanctions now become exclusively a mechanism for causing damage

We can talk about the relative novelty of the sanctions in terms of the number and intensity of the measures applied. However, for a number of qualitative characteristics, they contain patterns that have been well studied in the past

As conflict grows over the structure of the future international order, the tension between context and practice can grow as much as it shrinks

The conflict between Russia and the West is likely to drag on for decades, regardless of how and along exactly what lines the conflict in Ukraine ends

For digitalization’s “engine” to run safely and smoothly, it needs greener “oil”

Until decision-makers begin to allow a flexibility in their thinking on American SC core principles, the United States will continue to draw itself into conflict dilemmas of its own devising and/or make problems worse instead of better.