Analysis February 27, 2024 Putin’s Warped Idea of Russian History The total wartime losses of Russia and Ukraine are difficult to estimate. Neither country publishes accurate data, exaggerating the... Read more »
Analysis February 26, 2024 NATO Needs to Get Serious at Seventy-Five NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg recently arrived in Washington seeking to persuade the White House and Congress to successfully... Read more »
Expert Commentary February 16, 2024 Navalny’s Death and the Future of Dissent in Russia On February 16, Russian authorities announced that long-time opposition figure and Putin critic, Alexei Navalny, had died in prison... Read more »
Analysis February 13, 2024 Can Europe Hold the Line on Ukraine? When it comes to supporting Ukraine, the European Union has taken a decisive lead over the United States. On... Read more »
Reports February 7, 2024 Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in the “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine Key Findings Russia’s Black Sea Fleet’s supremacy on the Black Sea naval theater was contested in the early... Read more »
Analysis January 23, 2024 Membership Drive: The European Union’s Renewed Focus on the European Integration Project The start of a new year is typically considered a time to “start fresh” with new goals. In that... Read more »
Analysis January 16, 2024 Central Asia’s Middle Corridor Expansion: Opportunity for China and Iran The sustained attacks on merchant shipping in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels since November 2023 have... Read more »
Analysis January 11, 2024 Russia Steps Up the Competition in Africa Amidst the smoldering wreckage of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane, it appeared that Wagner Group would suffer without its senior leadership,... Read more »
Intern Corner January 9, 2024 Testing European Unity on Ukraine Ukraine’s counteroffensive appears to be stalling. Part of this derives from Western expectations that Ukraine would continue to make... Read more »
Analysis December 11, 2023 Stalemate Is Not Checkmate in Ukraine “Positions are seldom lost because they have been destroyed, but almost invariably because the leader has decided in his... Read more »