Off the MAP: Ukraine and the Problems of Expanding NATO
To join NATO, prospective members typically must follow a MAP, or membership action plan. The MAP has been NATO’s...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Off the MAP: Ukraine and the Problems of Expanding NATO
A nation must think before it acts.
Ukraine
Following Prigozhin’s Aborted Mutiny, What Will Happen to the Wagner Group?
The future of the Wagner Group is in doubt. Less than a week after Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin launched...
Editor’s Corner Summer 2023
In the spring 1958 issue of Orbis, Robert Strausz-Hupé, Alvin J. Cottrell, James E. Dougherty and Virgil Ney grappled...
Global Order After Ukraine
Abstract As Russia’s invasion in Ukraine enters its second year, how is the global system continuing to evolve and...
Russia’s War in Ukraine: Critical Vulnerabilities to Russia’s Military Operations and Systems
Key Takeaways Some of the critical vulnerabilities to Russia’s military operations and systems—revealed during the war in Ukraine—are due...
In the Darkness: Lukashenka Digs In
Since Belarus’ authoritarian President Aliaksandr Lukashenka suppressed the protests that followed his certain rigging of elections in August 2020,...
Bad Company: Wagner Group and Prigozhin at Crossroads in Ukraine
“The children of elites…allow themselves to lead a public, fat, carefree life while the children of others arrive back...
Latvia’s Military Industry Marks its First Decade
The Federation of Security and Defense Industries of Latvia recently celebrated its ten-year anniversary. Although the military industry in...
Russia’s Alleged Arms Shipment in South Africa
Editor’s Note: This article was first published in Asia Times under the title “What really happened with #LadyRussiagate?” ...
The G7 Meeting: New Roles for a Venerable Organization
The annual meeting of the world’s seven most economically prosperous democratic countries—plus the European Union—that comprise the G7 always...