The popular belief worldwide is that the global financial sanctions unleashed on Russia, the
seizure of assets and properties of the oligarch friends to President Putin for Russia's current …

In this fully revised and updated in-depth analysis of the war in Ukraine, Paul D'Anieri
explores the dynamics within Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia …

Keukeleire and Delreux demonstrate the scope and diversity of the European Union's
foreign policy, showing that EU foreign policy is broader than the Common Foreign and …

The crisis in Ukraine since late 2013 has seen four successive internationally mediated
agreements that have been at best partially implemented. Drawing on extensive fieldwork …

This essay uses the concept of security governance to explore the implications of Russia's
intervention in Ukraine for the rules-based security order in Europe. It outlines key ideas in …

When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country
that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished …

While the geopolitical rivalry between the European Union (EU) and Russia over their
common neighborhood has increasingly attracted academic and public attention, relatively …

The article analyzes three factors constraining EU power: its unwillingness to view Ukraine
as a candidate for membership, a miscalculation of Ukrainian leaders and the ignoring of …

The Minsk agreements of September 2014 and February 2015, which sought to end
Russia's war in eastern Ukraine, rest on two irreconcilable interpretations of Ukraine's …

Ukraine's policy towards Russia since independence in 1991 has been characterised by a
predicament: how to preserve its statehood in the context of its heavy economic dependence …