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Tag: Ukraine

Rajan Menon

On stopping the fighting and building the peace.

Rajan Menon

On stopping the fighting and building the peace.

Stephen Milder

Germany has responded to war in Ukraine with huge increases in defense spending, marking a new wave of militarization.

David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.

Chris Blattman

To discern why we fight, we should ask why we do not.

Rajan Menon

As the war continues with no end in sight, the country’s ability to prevail at the front will depend on how badly the war damages life on the ground.

Feisal G. Mohamed

The legal doctrine of "superior responsibility" makes the Russian president liable for war crimes committed in Ukraine.

Oliver Bullough, Daniel Penny

For decades, UK-based financial institutions have exploited loopholes to subvert regulations and shield the wealthy from scrutiny.

Raj Patel

The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.

Max Haiven
With the invasion causing a global shortage of sunflower oil, palm oil is back on the rise. But the commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.
Marta Figlerowicz
Poland and Russia both think of Ukraine as a seat of authentic Slavic culture. A new translation of Józef Czapski’s war memoir highlights how this has often clashed with Ukraine’s independence.
Rajan Menon
Condemning Putin's war must go hand in hand with imagining a more just security order.
Irina Zherebkina

Writing from a city under siege, a founder of the landmark Kharkiv Center for Gender Studies reflects on the importance of women’s studies after the USSR collapsed, and what it helps us understand about Putin’s war on Ukraine.

Emil Edenborg
A pervasive ideology of "traditional values" has taken hold in Russia, portraying LGBT rights as existential threats to the nation.
Bethany Moreton
The mystical connection between white Southern nostalgia, the global family values movement, and Russia.
Eugene Rumer, Rajan Menon
Selected by The New York Times as one of the best reads for context on the current conflict, our book on the unwinding of the post–Cold War order is now available for all to read.
Ileana Nachescu
The war is shaped by global neoliberalism, sexism, and racism—not just Cold War dynamics.
Simon Waxman
Putin's war in Ukraine breaks the rules, but powerful states always do. Far from dying, a just global order remains to be built.

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