Ukraine

Putin’s Anti-Gay War on Ukraine

How the Kremlin weaponizes “traditional values,” portraying LGBT rights as existential threats to the nation.

  • Emil Edenborg

The U.S. Christians Who Pray for Putin

The mystical connection between white Southern nostalgia, the global family values movement, and Russia.

  • Bethany Moreton

Open Access Book: Conflict in Ukraine

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.

  • Rajan Menon
  • Eugene Rumer

Beyond the Postsoviet

The war in Ukraine is shaped by global neoliberalism, sexism, and racism—not just Cold War dynamics.

  • Ileana Nachescu

What Rule-Based International Order?

Putin’s war in Ukraine breaks the rules, but powerful states always do.

  • Simon Waxman

The Burden of Being Good

That the United States wields its power benevolently is anything but clear from a Russian vantage point.

  • Michael Kimmage

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