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Europe, North America, Policy & Politics

How U.S. History Can Save North Macedonia and Defeat Putinism in the Balkans

Edward P. Joseph
October 2, 2023

Given the spectacular killing of Yevgeny Prigozhin and the less-than-spectacular Ukrainian counter-offensive, it’s looking a lot tougher to defeat Russian President Vladimir Putin. Fortunately, the United States has a rare opportunity to defeat Putinism in the Balkans. To score this…

Europe, Security & Conflict

Post-Soviet no more – the transformative impact of war on Russia’s neighbors

Johan Engvall, Ismail Khan, and Kristina Melin
September 18, 2023

This is a shortened, significantly revised article based on the authors’ chapter “Shifting balances – the war and Russia’s neighbours,” published in the report “Russia’s War Against Ukraine and the West: The First Year”, edited by Maria Engqvist and Emil…

Asia Pacific, Europe, Security & Conflict

A World Historical Perspective on the War in Ukraine and the China-Taiwan Standoff

Jongsoo Lee
September 10, 2023

As the world faces a protracted war in Ukraine with no clear end in sight and a tense standoff in the Taiwan Strait with potential for catastrophic escalation, the time is ripe for a world historical perspective on these conflicts,…

Africa, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

Sudan: A Tinderbox to All-Out War

Hafed Al-Ghwell
June 19, 2023

Violent clashes between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the infamous paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have plunged Sudan into crisis and renewed instability. In mid-April of 2023, brief gun battles in the streets of Khartoum and other strategic areas…

Regional, Topical

International Law’s Role in a Strat-Dominated World

Arthur Appleton & Justin Frosini
June 12, 2023

This article originally appeared on May 15, 2023, in the SAIS Europe Journal of Global Affairs. Even the finest warrior is defeated when he goes against natural law. By his own hand he is doomed and all creatures are likely…

Europe, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

‘Not in Our Name:’ Why Russia is Not a Decolonial Ally or the Dark Side of Civilizational Communism and Imperialism

Selbi Durdiyeva
May 29, 2023

This contribution was written as part of the research project Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict [grant number 01UG2205A], funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Though decolonial thinking has existed for as long as colonization itself,…

Asia Pacific, Civil Society, Economics, Europe, Middle East, North America, Policy & Politics, Regional, Security & Conflict, Topical

Johns Hopkins SAIS Faculty and Fellow Reflections: The War in Ukraine at One Year

Johns Hopkins SAIS Faculty and SAIS FPI Fellows
February 24, 2023

One year after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) faculty and SAIS Foreign Policy Institute fellows explain the current state of the war, the varying international responses to it, and…

Europe, Policy & Politics, Regional, Security & Conflict, Topical

President Zelensky of Ukraine addressing the British Parliament

The Kyiv-Kosovo Catalyst: Ukraine’s Recognition of Kosovo Can Affirm Western Order in the Balkans and Across Europe

Edward P. Joseph
February 18, 2023

Edward P. Joseph is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute. Summary Will there be one European order or two? That is the unavoidable question looming over high-stakes US and EU diplomacy on Kosovo. Elaborating the author’s statement to…

Asia Pacific, North America, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

Will Biden’s New Truman Doctrine Offset the Sino-Russian Pact?

Patrick Mendis and Antonina Luszczykiewicz
June 20, 2022

During his maiden trip to Asia as president in late May 2022, Joe Biden implied that the United States would take stronger military action to defend Taiwan against China than his administration has taken to support Ukraine to fight against…

Asia Pacific, North America, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

How to Weaken the China-Russia Axis: Historical Lessons from Great-Power Competition

Matthew F. Calabria
June 2, 2022

Key Judgments Growing ties between Moscow and Beijing threaten US national security. American strategic planners should consider undermining these ties as a strategic imperative. This goal remains achievable if pursued with vigor because Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine has…

Civil Society, Europe, Policy & Politics

Image of protestors holding Ukrainian flag and a sign that says "I am Ukrainian. And so are you! The whole world is Ukraine today!"

We All Are Ukrainians

Amb. David L. Carden
March 23, 2022

Diplomacy[1] failed to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine, leaving tens of millions at grave risk of losing their lives, independence, and freedom. The tragedy of war is upon Ukrainians, with its effects being felt around the world. Many are asking…

Asia Pacific, Europe, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

Europe’s Borderlands and China’s Challenge: Why War in Ukraine Matters

Thomas D. Grant
March 12, 2022

How are we to understand Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,[1] and how are we to respond? Invoking fabricated grievances,[2],[3] Russia on February 24, 2022 launched an all-out war against Ukraine. Friends and allies have shown solidarity, as Europe, the United States,…