Why We Need to Acknowledge Russia’s Security Concerns
At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the United States was able to avoid nuclear war over the placement in Cuba...
In the Aftermath of Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Victory without Peace or Peace without Victory?
Little did Putin from last year would have anticipated that victory would virtually be absent on Victory Day 2022 – domestically, no triumph from...
Contesting Russia requires renewed US engagement in Central Asia
When US Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III declared that Washington wanted to see Russia so “weakened" that it would no longer be able...
A Clash of Civilisations: the Russian vs. the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Russia and the Nordic countries’ pavilions at this year’s Venice Biennale, the world’s most prestigious art exhibition, project two different concepts of civilisation, nationalism,...
Personal Freedom: Libertarians, the Russia-Ukraine Crisis, and a Crisis of Ideology
In the past few weeks, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine experiencing daily developments, many have opposed Russia’s tactics, strategy, and overall military adventure...
Iran capitalises on Central Asian vacuum created by the Ukraine war
Anti-Iranian protests in Afghanistan and the stabbing of three clerics in Iran threaten to cast a shadow over Iranian efforts to capitalise on the...
Reforms under the shadow of war
As war rages in our region, historical new reforms were introduced in Kazakhstan. Until now, after 30 years of independence from the Soviet Union,...
Russia Ukraine war: The Expectations of the International system
Seeing as the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the enhanced developments that followed it, the subsequent intervention of Russian Militaries in the Ukrainian depth,...
Feykovyye Novosti: Russia’s Fake News Laws and International Law
The Russian Federation is well known for being, at the least, an authoritarian state and, at the most, a totalitarian one. In the past...
Fukuyama’s remarks on Russia’s war in Ukraine are doomed to fail
In the study of International Relations, Francis Fukuyama is a “big name” due to his best-seller book, The End of History and the Last...