Even if Putin does stop at Ukraine, neighboring states can no longer feel safe as a new Iron Curtain has been raised in Europe.
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.
Since 2014, E-International Relations has published a series of edited collections and monographs that dig into the roots and branches of the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,’ but as seen in western discourse over Ukrainian migrants ‘European’, ‘White’, and ‘civilized’ seem to be freer and superior.
Russia’s invasion of a sovereign country, Ukraine, and exporting democracy as the US did in Iraq in 2003 are two illegal and immoral sides of the same coin.
if one seeks to understand the current situation one must understand the strategic history of the Soviet, or Russian, conflict with the West.
The events of 1 March 2022 cause us to revisit the Holocaust. With hope, the fears of President Zelensky will not be realized and the grim cycle of history does not repeat itself.
Given the increased use of war rhetoric and calls for no-fly-zones Western leaders must deploy political wisdom and show a capacity for serious judgement.
Ukrainians are showing the world that the Ukrainian nation has always existed, and that they are prepared to pay the ultimate price to live in a free and democratic society.
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