Insights

I don’t use ‘totalitarianism’ lightly. But that’s what we’re witnessing, writes Francine Hirsch in The Boston Globe.

The limits of Russia’s infrastructure provide a way to slash Putin’s oil revenue, avert a price shock for the West and fund Ukraine reparations, writes Craig Kennedy in Politico.

Rereading Russian Energy Chains under the thunder of this new war brings forth uncomfortable—and hopeful—questions about the future, writes Center Associate Margarita Balmaceda.

Strategic communications expert delves into the difficulty of addressing nuclear risk reduction among the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

Small states are no longer helpless entities without agency—they have a whole box of tools at their disposal, says Stephen Jones, Director of the Program on Georgian Studies.

A new paper by Craig Kennedy proposes ways to enhance the economic impact of oil sanctions while mitigating their harmful effects on the world economy.

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.