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Resilience Strained: How Civil-Military Relations Are Shaping Russia’s War Effort

Image credit/license The shocks to Russian civil-military relations amid the Russia-Ukraine war started in the first days of the invasion in February-March 2022 and have kept rolling with the partial…

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Foreign Fighters in Ukraine Pose Growing, Unaddressed Threat to Western Security

Image credit/license The 2022 invasion of Ukraine has reshaped the security landscape of Europe, exposing Moscow’s renewed imperial ambitions and its subversive campaigns against Western countries. Yet, amid this upheaval,…

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Newly found Reductionism in Nuclear Deterrence Russian-Style

Image credit/license Since the start of its war against Ukraine, Russia has struggled to adjust its nuclear policy to the evolving patterns of conventional warfare. The general conceptual framework guiding…

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(De)Centralization? Challenges to Local-Level Governance under Martial Law in Ukraine

Image credit/license Ukraine’s decentralization reform is considered one of the country’s most successful reforms since the Euromaidan and an essential factor in its resilience to Russian invasion. Instead of local…

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Anchored in Freedom: Ukrainians’ Will to Fight Back in Harder Times

Image credit/license After regaining nearly half of the territories Russia occupied in its full-scale invasion of February 24, 2022, Ukraine fell on harder times. By May 2023, having incurred horrendous…

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Ukraine’s Economy Moves Westward: Implications for Rebound and Reconstruction

Image credit/license In the wake of Russia’s massive invasion of Ukraine beginning in February 2022, the Ukrainian economy unsurprisingly suffered a major shock. The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell…

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Ukraine’s EU Membership Prospects: Taking on Europe’s Budgetary and Institutional Hurdles

Image license/credit Before Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, the likelihood of Ukraine joining the European Union (EU) was a distant prospect at best. Enlargement fatigue plagued many existing member…

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Categorizing Russian Atrocity Crimes in Ukraine: Judicial Accountability and Implications Ahead

Image license/credit One year into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan summarized the scope and scale of the devastation by stating, “Ukraine is a crime…

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For Victory in Freedom: Why Ukrainian Resilience to Russian Aggression Endures

Image license/credit Not only do the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians remain resolute in their commitment to driving Russia out of Ukraine’s internationally recognized territory, but this commitment is strongly fused…

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Clearing the Air: Secretary Blinken Visits Ukraine

Image license/credit Secretary Blinken’s recent visit to Ukraine stands out in a number of ways. Blinken had not been in Ukraine for exactly a year, since September 8, 2022. This…

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Resilience Strained: How Civil-Military Relations Are Shaping Russia’s War Effort

Foreign Fighters in Ukraine Pose Growing, Unaddressed Threat to Western Security

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Clearing the Air: Secretary Blinken Visits Ukraine