America returns to containment to deal with Russia and China
•Strategists are relearning the lessons of the cold war THE AIRSTRIKES that pummelled the Ukrainian military base near the town…
Putin is creating the multipolar world he (thought he) wanted
By Sven Biscop, Bart Dessein & Jasper Roctus Up until the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s and China’s worsening relations…
CHINA AND ASIA
GLOBAL AFFAIRS
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARRIBEAN
RESOURCE CENTRE
RUSSIA AND EUROASIA
US AND CANADA
Ukraine crisis kicks off new superpower struggle among US, Russia and China
•Beijing and Moscow now hold a stronger hand in confronting the West than during the Cold War By Michael R. Gordon …
The Russia-Ukraine crisis has removed all doubt. We’re in a new cold war
By Erica Gaston Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bellicose speech yesterday, in which he announced that Russia had recognized the independence…
The crisis in Ukraine is not about Ukraine. It’s about Germany
By Mike Whitney “The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars– the First,…
Why West Africa has had so many coups and how to prevent more
By Muhammad Dan Suleiman and Hakeem Onapajo West Africa’s latest successful coup, in Burkina Faso on 24 January 2022, has renewed…
White Malice: how the CIA strangled African independence at birth
By Henning Melber Historian Susan Williams grew up in Zambia. Like other scholars of her generation raised in former settler societies of…
Why Putin won’t ever let Ukraine be Finland
•Why a widely touted model for Ukrainian neutrality won’t work to stop a Russian invasion. By Caroline de Gruyter The idea…