Top news of the week: 15.02.2023.
Chinese mobile masts loom over the Munich Security Conference
Huawei kit is set up around the venue, highlighting a sore point in Germany’s security ties with the US and allies.
The Biden administration has failed to articulate a compelling U.S. national interest in Ukraine beyond vague assertions that “democracy” and “the liberal order” are at stake
The Ukrainian military, properly supplied with Western weapons and ammunition, can defeat Russia or make enough progress on the battlefield to force an acceptable settlement As …
Out of Alignment
What the war in Ukraine has revealed about non-Western powers.
The EU Must Reconcile Geopolitics and Democracy
To make enlargement work, the EU has to marry geopolitics to democracy. By doing so, it can restore its credibility in candidate countries and avoid a Balkans scenario in Ukraine.
It’s High Time to Decolonize Western Russia Studies
Why has it taken a war of conquest for experts to recognize Russia’s nature as a vast imperial enterprise?
The United States, China, and the “new non-aligned” countries
The desire for cooperation faces an obvious problem: Many countries would rather not choose sides, and they gain leverage from playing great powers off each other.
Spy balloons sighted over NATO territory illustrate the need for data sharing among allies, including in space, said Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.
First were the helmets, then the Leopard tanks. The evolving approach of sending aid to Ukraine fits a conflict as fluid as it is unpredictable.