Totalizing moral binaries are particularly dangerous in the sphere of international relations, where international law lacks universal mechanisms of enforcement.
Responses to the Ukraine invasion put the spotlight on calls by numerous people who wonder where this outpouring of support was in their hour of need.
Russia has not only broken international law in the most flagrant manner, but has devalued the system of norms, values and practices that underpins international society.
The flooding of arms into Ukraine will neither bring peace, nor an end to fighting but a protracted war with civilian casualties and unforeseen consequences.
Colombia is set to elect a new Congress and, soon afterwards, a new president which will indicate whether it will join Latin America’s turn to the left.
Even if Putin does stop at Ukraine, neighboring states can no longer feel safe as a new Iron Curtain has been raised in Europe.
World Security works best when it is a community of lowercase ‘world securities’, fails ambitiously and continuously, collaborates, and learns.
With global attention focussed on Ukraine, Xi’s efforts to reinstate a Sino-centric regional order by recovering ‘lost lands’, including Taiwan should not be overlooked.
The Ukraine crisis is the latest expression of the West’s refocus on Russia in what appears to be a failing strategy to contain Beijing.
If this military adventure fails to reach its objectives, Russia will be a humiliated pariah state on the fringes of world economic and political power.
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