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Event Review – NATO’s Agenda for the 21st Century: In Conversation with Paul...
by Hélène Kirkkesseli NATO at 70, where to next for the Alliance? (Image Credit: NATO) On 11 March 2020, Strife had the pleasure of welcoming Paul King, editor and programmer at NATO for over twelve...
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Smoke, Mirrors, Yachts, and Dachas
By Jackson Oliver Webster The reality TV run-up to Russia’s presidential elections (Credit Image: Телеканал 360) This article is part of a two-part pre- and post-election analysis of the Russian...
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Alexei Navalny and the ‘Affair of the Poisons’, à la russe
by N. Alexander Falling ill on a plane from Omsk to Moscow, the ex-lawyer and blogger on corruption in Russia, Alexei Navalny was rushed to the hospital after a suspected – and later proven – poisoning...
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Nagorno Karabakh: What’s Next?
by Carlotta Rinaudo Kids in the village of Karindag, Nagorno Karabakh, 1993 (credit: RedRipper24, Flickr) In 1988 the kids of Nagorno Karabakh did not attend school. Instead of books, they took stones,...
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The Overextension of Sovereignty: How states have dampened opposition to...
by Andrew Scanlon Kremlin Dome of Senate. Photo Credit: iStockPhoto. In the twenty-first century the calculation that war is too costly to pursue in the conventional manner has kept large scale...
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Capturing the humanity of the Cold War
By James Brown A picture taken by renowned Czech photographer Viktor Kolar; his work captured the everyday experience in Ostrava, an important industrial town in communist Czechoslovakia. (Image:...
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Female Suicide Bombers: An Uncomfortable Truth
By Anne Preesman Black Widow ready for action (Daily Star, 2010) In the early 2000s, Russia engaged in a violent war with its southern republic of Chechnya. During the conflict, the Chechen insurgents...
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The Old World of Arms Control is Dying
By Bryce Farabaugh Military.com, 2021 The future of nuclear arms control is uncertain. On February 3, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the 5-year extension of the New Strategic Arms...
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Andrei Sakharov at 100: Nobel Laureate, Dissident, and Human Rights Champion
Andrei Sakharov, born 21st May, 1921 in Moscow (Credit: Vladimir Fedorenko/License: CC BY-SA 3.0 license) The 21st of May 2021 marked one hundred years since the birth of Andrei Sakharov. A Nobel...
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The HMS Defender Incident: Russia, the Crimea and the Insecurity of an...
HMS DEFENDER transits through the Suez Canal. Picture: LA(Phot) Dan Rosenbaum. Licensed under Creative Commons. On the 23rd of June, when it was reported that Russian ships fired warning shots at HMS...
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Russia’s battle with COVID: One Step Forwards, Three Steps Back
Russia continues to struggle against the Covid-19 pandemic as cases and deaths increase each day (by focusonmore.com; licensed under CC BY 2.0) Russia was the first country to approve a vaccine to...
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Putin’s People Part 2: How the Oligarchs Took Russia’s Wealth and then...
Russian Newspapers by Ruslan Krivobok / Руслан Кривобок is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Most books on modern Russia tend to isolate Russia’s re-emergence as a significant power in Europe from the West....
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Russia’s 2021 State Duma Elections: A sham vote but with signs pointing to...
Russia’s recent elections were the most repressive of the past twenty-one years, marred by ballot stuffing (©Gwydion M. Williams, 2011; CC BY 2.0 license). National elections to the State Duma of the...
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Beyond Beijing: Russia in the Indo-Pacific
Russian Missile Cruiser Varyag. Photo Credit: Phil King, licensed via Creative Commons. Russia’s military power in the Indo-Pacific is often confined analytically to the Sino-Russian relationship...
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Russian PMCs in Africa: How the Kremlin converts hard power into economic...
Soldier Holding Gun /Photo Credit: Jakson Martins, licensed under Creative Commons The primary driver of Russian expansion in Africa are Private Military Contractors (PMC). Exerting hard power, while...
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Passports and the New Cold War
By the latter half of the Trump administration, punditry was firmly centred on the development of a new Cold War. While some focus on a revisionist Russia, others see the primary conflict of the 21st...
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