This is a situation with many moving parts, any one of which can derail diplomacy.
- Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
History tells us that neutrality rarely works as a mechanism for preventing conflict.
What Nato and its allies do next will be vital to the future security of Europe and the rest of the world.
Le discours de Poutine va plus loin que la reconnaissance d’indépendance des deux républiques. Il lie la situation en Ukraine à des enjeux globaux d’ordre international.
El último discurso de Putin revela que la disputa con Ucrania es sólo una parte de su desafío al actual orden internacional.
Putin’s latest speech revealed that the dispute with Ukraine is just part of his challenge to the current international order.
The previous, Minsk II agreement has failed to bring peace for seven years.
The seemingly never-ending crisis has taken a severe toll on Ukraine’s economy with severe consequences for the country’s people.
A complex mix of domestic and foreign issues is putting pressure on the new government of Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Newly inaugurated as president, Zelenskiy is now preparing to fight a parliamentary election – while Russia and the West look on.
Ukrainians have lost faith in the political class – and are looking for new alternatives. Populism and Russia may benefit.
Ukraine is in a parlous state, but does presidential favourite Volodymyr Zelenskiy have the fix it so desperately needs?
Four peace agreements have been struck to try and keep Ukraine on an even keel, but none of them has resolved the conflict’s fundamental problems.
South Sudan’s independence in 2011, which ended half a century of deadly conflict, was met with much praise. But a descent into civil war has led to dismay and suggests fresh thinking is required.
Ukraine is giving Russia two options – and neither is likely to end well.
Attacks in France, Kuwait and Tunisia come against a backdrop of increasing extremist violence across the world.
An attempt by the incumbent president to change the constitution and run for a third term has exposed deep and dangerous divisions.
The terrorist group’s attack on Garissa University College show how quickly regional security is deteriorating.
The second Minsk agreement is being implemented in fits and starts, but outbreaks of violence show Ukraine is still on a knife-edge.
After all night talks in the Belarusian capital Minsk, the outcomes of the four party talks in the so-called Normandy format (Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany) have neither brought a major breakthrough…
Over the past few days, Ukraine has taken a significant turn for the worse. Fighting between rebels and government forces has intensified, the civilian death toll has increased, and the war of words between…
Al-Qaeda’s most active and notorious branch – the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) – has claimed responsibility for the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris. While some questions remain…
The deadly attack on a bus carrying civilians near Donetsk, killing at least 12 of them and wounding many more, comes in the wake of yet another round of failed talks among the foreign ministers of Russia…
Moldova has gone to the polls in a vote seen as crucial for determining the country’s future direction. Preliminary results indicate that the pro-European parties together achieved about 44% of the vote…
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall that ushered in the end of communism in eastern Europe and the break-up of the Soviet Union, all the signs point to a new Cold War between Russia and…
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