The Primacy Trap
In the 2010s, the global landscape changed. The Arab Spring, the Russian occupation of Crimea, and China’s national security...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The Primacy Trap
A nation must think before it acts.
Ukraine
Changing Tides in the Black Sea Region: Conference Report
The following is an edited transcript of a live recording of FPRI’s Chain Reaction podcast from the Changing...
Wagner Mutiny Ex Post Facto: What’s Next in Russia and Africa?
After bulldozing trucks and shooting down government aircraft, Wagner Group’s columns, which had been advancing northward from Rostov, stalled...
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...
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...