Putin’s War on Ukraine

Mark Leonard thinks Europeans should plan for a prolonged conflict despite Ukraine’s recent gains.

Robert D. Kaplan warns that the collapse of a despotic regime more often leads to a political void than to a healthy democracy.

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg shows how the Ukraine war achieved what neither soaring inequality nor the COVID-19 pandemic could.

Carl Bildt thinks Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the northeast has fundamentally altered the course of the war.

Shlomo Ben-Ami argues that the United States needs to curtail defense contractors' influence over its foreign policy.

Andrei Kolesnikov & Denis Volkov paint a more nuanced picture of public opinion than headline polling figures suggest.

Slavoj Žižek explains why the war must be framed in universal terms, rather than as a defense of Europe.

Richard Haass thinks the country’s leaders will have to use the lull in the fighting to weigh war goals and economic costs.