The Madness of Vladimir Putin
What Next? This paper was written with an Asian view of Vladimir Putin, the European Union, and Asians in Europe looking at Europe. The...
The Drums of War : Beat Russia
How is the Ukrainian war ending? Are the NATO states ready for war? Are the U.S. or the Europeans using the war to modernize...
Measuring the Unmeasurable Indicators of Russian State Resilience
At the time of this writing, we find ourselves 550 days deep into the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine’s summer counter-offensive is...
Information Warfare and Influence Operations
Information Warfare and Influence Operations (IW/IO) are offensive tools in countering state and non-state disinformation. If applied in the context of statecraft, IW/IO can...
Ukraine: The War on the Footstep of Europe
Since March of 2014 war has again raged on the footsteps of Europe, morphing progressively into a kind not witnessed continentally since the Russo-Georgian...
Far Right Extremist Movements Fighting in Ukraine: Implications for Post-conflict Europe
The Russian war in Ukraine is resetting global affairs beyond Europe, as well as creating new extremist landscapes. Several far-right movements mobilized and delivered...
New Report Shows Capitalism Still Popular and That’s a Good Thing
To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of capitalism’s death are greatly exaggerated. For years, we have been told support for socialism is overtaking capitalism,...
Great Powers and Their Allies: The Experience of Global Confrontation
In the event that relations between Russia and its allies were assessed in comparison with similar practices in the United States and Europe, then...
Russia at War
Observers are quick to detect signs of growing domestic discontent with Putin’s war against Ukraine. But Russian society and business continue to support the...
Ukraine, the Shadow War
For the most part, Russia’s war against Ukraine focusses our attention squarely on the conventional fighting. However, this war encompasses a great deal of...