Don’t neglect the civil side of Ukraine war, analyst warns
It is dangerous for the U.S., NATO, the EU, and America’s broader range of strategic partners to focus on the military dimensions of the Ukraine War and to fail focusing… Read more »
Category: Ukraine
Ukraine on the frontline: Can democracies stop tyranny?
This year’s Globsec Bratislava Forum takes place “on the frontline of democracy,” said the group’s president Robert Vass. Just 500km away, “people are paying the highest price for values… Read more »
Recognizing resilience: Ukraine war’s implications for global democracy
“Ukraine has always aspired to be free”, Voltaire wrote back in the eighteenth-century. He knew that most of his French readers could barely find this “unknown land” on a map,… Read more »
History at a turning point: Who is Putin fighting in Ukraine?
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has inspired Ukrainians and won global respect and praise for his courage and defiance in resisting Russia’s devastating invasion of his country, Reuters reports. Refusing to leave Ukraine’s capital… Read more »
Ukraine’s ‘existential threat’ to authoritarian kleptocracy
“A successful democratic experiment in Ukraine presents an existential threat to Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian kleptocracy in Russia,” says detained opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza. It’s his strong conviction that Russia, one… Read more »
Ukraine’s resilient civil society bridging the humanitarian gap
On April 5, at lunchtime, 43-year-old Eliot Higgins, founder of the independent Bellingcat group of online investigators, was in the middle of “geolocating” an appalling video of Russian atrocities… Read more »
Prepare for instability in Russia
If Vladimir Putin loses power, as a result of the war in Ukraine, Russia’s future looks hopeful, argues Anders Åslund, a senior fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum and author… Read more »
An ideological clash of societies? Three scenarios for ending the Ukraine war
The Ukrainian people’s resistance to Russia’s invasion has stirred the unity of the democratic world and showed “that freedom must be fought for,” Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the World Economic… Read more »
Ukraine ‘will be decisive’ for Western alliance
Kaja Kallas remembers the stories of when her mother, Kristi, then a baby, was deported to Siberia in a cattle car with her own mother & grandmother so it is… Read more »
Did Ukraine’s civil society help turn back Russia?
As Rosaria Puglisi pointed out in A People’s Army: Civil Society as a Security Actor in Post-Maidan Ukraine, “the large-scale mobilization of Ukrainian society is … arguably EuroMaidan’s most… Read more »