Last month, the Atlantic Council hosted its first Freedom and Prosperity Research Conference, gathering scholars from around the world to present their data-based research on the relationship between prosperity and economic,… Read more »
Fistfights broke out among Georgian lawmakers on Monday as a parliamentary committee debated a bill on “foreign agents” which critics say is modelled on draconian legislation in neighboring Russia, Reuters… Read more »
China is not foisting their model on an unwilling world, argues analyst Paul Scharre. Many countries are all too happy to emulate China’s example of how to suppress freedoms and… Read more »
A Russian victory in Ukraine would frog-march the world down a bleak path where might is right and frontiers are drawn by violence. It may hasten the next, even worse,… Read more »
The anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “stands as a grim milestone – for the people of Ukraine and for the international community,” said António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United… Read more »
Teaching a lecture class on Ukrainian history last fall, I felt a touch of the surreal, says Yale historian Timothy Snyder. A nuclear power had attacked a state that had given… Read more »
Eleven months ago, President Joe Biden came to Poland to denounce a war he’d hoped to avoid. On Tuesday, he returned having fully embraced the mantle of wartime leader, boasting… Read more »
Russia‘s conduct of the war in Ukraine flouts the most basic international laws and conventions, posing a fundamental threat to the global order. As such, it offers a textbook example… Read more »
The result of the war in Ukraine will shape the perceived efficacy of autocracy and democracy, one observer suggests. Is the world witnessing a revisionist moment? the Munich Security Report… Read more »
Democracies’ support for Ukraine is not only in line with their fundamental values, but also in their strategic interest, a leading analyst suggests. “Americans continually struggle to reconcile contradictory interpretations… Read more »