Russia Resisting Putin’s propaganda: successes and failures Since World War I, combatant parties have used propaganda to sway public opinion. Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine offers a vivid illustration of how propaganda has evolved into one ⋙
African Union Positioning “Africa”: extraverted agency amidst global (dis)order A spectre is haunting Africa: the spectre of African agency. Long denied, African agency is surfacing in new ways in the current context of the new global (dis)order and ⋙
migrants Ukraine, Afghanistan and Belarus: What EU emergency response to ongoing migration plights? In less than a year, three new scenarios of crisis emerged within the EU and at its external borders. The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan in August 2021 further ⋙
Interviews Can empathy influence leadership, security, and high-stake situations? A conversation with Claire Yorke Can empathy influence leadership, security, and high-stake situations? The War in Afghanistan (2001), the Covid-19 pandemic (2019), and now Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (2022) are all events that have ⋙
Russia Kremlin’s spy mania and resistance in Russian academia With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many anti-war protests have taken place in Russia. As a result, many students and scholars have faced police violence and persecution. Maria Rakhmaninova is ⋙
Russia The Russian aggression to Ukraine: from imperial utopia to decaying dystopia What’s the imperial myth? It’s the mythological narration of a past that becomes the foundation of national identity, indicates, and legitimises the sphere of influence where the empire ⋙
Field Ukraine’s women at arms by Guntaj Mirzayev. Seven years into the war in Donbass, Ukraine is undergoing reforms in its security and defense sectors, also for what concerns women’s participation in the military. ⋙
conflict Causalities and casualties: the perpetuation of violence in conflict-management operations That peace operations and crisis response mechanisms can fail to restore security is not news. What is less known, is that in many cases they can also have harmful outcomes ⋙
Field Politics, conflict and criminality: firearms proliferation in Ukraine In June 2016, Grégoire Moutaux, a French national, was apprehended at one of the Ukrainian-Polish border crossing points while trying to smuggle 5 AK-pattern assault rifles, thousands of bullets, 2 ⋙
