Benign nationalism fuels Ukraine’s struggle
Ukraine must ensure that the country’s politics is not poisoned by a triumph over Russia since victory will understandably create hype, and a sense of pride, argues Oleksandr Danylyuk,… Read more »
Soviet seeds of terror being planted in Ukraine?
CNN’s Jake Tapper met with Myroslav Marynovych (above), vice-rector of Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv and a former prisoner in the Soviet gulag in the Ural Mountains. “This is the… Read more »
The price of hegemony
The war in Ukraine has provided a new impetus for closer collaboration among most democracies. Even if there is a ceasefire and peace settlement, Russian decline has accelerated, the Atlantic… Read more »
How 8 years of practice prepared Ukraine’s civil society
Russian news propaganda is shielding residents from the horrors of the invasion of Ukraine, NBC News reports (above). Eight years of practice in countering disinformation prepared civil society for Russia’s… Read more »
Democracies’ trade-off – between resilience and redlines
Now freighted with evidence of mass atrocities and war crimes, the Russo-Ukrainian war is the strongest geopolitical and moral earthquake in Europe since the Cold War. The effects will thus… Read more »
The only moral choice – ensure Ukraine prevails
Seven Ukrainian civilians executed by Russian soldiers in two separate incidents. A case of repeated rape. These are just two of the many Human Rights Watch findings on apparent war… Read more »
Myanmar’s democratic future? The devil is in the details
Myanmar’s junta is more than a year old. The vast majority of the country’s people oppose the junta and favor democracy. But the devil is in the details, notes the Walter… Read more »
Ukraine’s ‘secret weapon against Russia’ – civil society
How has Ukraine stood its ground against Russia’s larger force? Part of the answer is that the smaller country has a strong civil society, notes Jillian Kay Melchior. Russia has deliberately slaughtered… Read more »
Democracy v autocracy? Hungary, Serbia set the stage for battles within democracies
Ukraine is not the only place where the contest between autocracy and democracy is taking place. It is also happening within several European democracies, through elections rather than military conflict…. Read more »
Ukraine: Are democracies really united against Russia?
“If [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is successful in undermining Ukrainian independence and democracy, the world will return to an era of aggressive and intolerant nationalism reminiscent of the early… Read more »