Africa’s silence on the Ukraine war is counter-productive because any undermining to the rules-based international order, particularly with regard to the inviolability of state sovereignty, represents a net loss for the continent.
The Kremlin’s oft-cited justification for the Ukraine war not only doesn’t hold up to logical scrutiny, but is also frequently contradicted in the regime’s own top-level narrative.
It may be time to dust off an early Polish proposal for a peacekeeping force in unoccupied Ukraine.
It’s the optimist vision, not the revisionist nor realist one, which is most likely to be realized as the Ukraine war grinds toward its eventual resolution.
The Kremlin’s justification for invading Ukraine risks negative knock-on effects concerning minority rights in Europe and beyond.
The Ukraine war is making it much harder to be an open admirer of Putin’s Russia, and this is already reverberating in the continent’s populist politics.
Vaccine hesitancy is a complex and worrying phenomenon, and in Eastern Europe and elsewhere it could well stem from long-running political issues.
COVID-19 didn’t start the recent deglobalization trend, but it’s certainly contributing to it.
Europe’s populist parties haven’t thrived amid COVID-19 – but their ideas have.
While COVID-19 may not be an existential crisis for the EU, it does tick virtually all the boxes when it comes to hardening Eurosceptic attitudes throughout the bloc.