Insights

Open doors, however difficult to accept, have facilitated progress that was previously inconceivable, writes NTF Fellow Danny Stoian.

Russia’s refusal to undertake an honest reckoning with the myriad atrocities committed by the Soviet Union laid fertile grounds for this attack, write Jeremy Friedman and Ingrid Burke Friedman.

A Western boycott of the Arctic Council could backfire, writes Ingrid Burke Friedman in Foreign Policy.

Alexandra Vacroux speaks with the Harvard Gazette about developments in Ukraine.

Western allies should announce that President Zelensky has been empowered to dial back or even withdraw elements of the unprecedented sanctions on Russia, write Rawi Abdelal and Alexandra Vacroux.

A new book by Tinatin Japaridze explores Stalin and his legacy through the lens of the post-Soviet generation.

The international community should keep pressure on the Taliban and spearhead a vigorous response to the attack on education, says NTF Fellow Fara Abbas.

Putin will go down in history as the figure who did more to unite the Ukrainian people (albeit against Russia) than any other in recent memory, write George Soroka and Félix Krawatzek.

Kelly O’Neill discusses Eurasianism as an imperial idea in Foreign Policy.