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A general view of the hall during a meeting of NATO defence ministers at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 16, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman

Order from Chaos

European security after NATO’s Madrid summit

Javier Solana

Friday, June 24, 2022

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis meet for a working session in Mariinsky Palace, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 16, 2022. Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERS

Europe

Strategic responsibility: Rebalancing European and trans-Atlantic defense

Hans Binnendijk, Daniel S. Hamilton, and Alexander Vershbow

Friday, June 24, 2022

FILE PHOTO: Direction signs are seen in the border railway station in Kybartai, Lithuania June 21, 2022. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo

Podcast Episode

Why is Kaliningrad at the center of a new Russia-NATO faceoff?

Daniel S. Hamilton and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, June 23, 2022

U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin poses with the Defence Ministers of Estonia Kalle Laanet, Latvia Artis Pabriks, and Lithuania Arvydas Anusauskas, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 17, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/Pool

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Strengthening the US and NATO defense postures in Europe after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Reports

China's President Xi Jinping is shown on a screen through digitally decorated glass during the World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China, November 23, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

Report

Winning the web: How Beijing exploits search results to shape views of Xinjiang and COVID-19

Jessica Brandt, Bret Schafer, Elen Aghekyan, Valerie Wirtschafter, and Adya Danaditya

May 2022

Container terminal and city landscape in port of Dar es Salaam on February 21, 2018 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Report

How currency sanctions on Russia could disrupt trade with Africa

Chris Heitzig, Aloysius Uche Ordu, and Leo Holtz

Monday, May 23, 2022

Europe

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — April 2022

Friday, April 22, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via a video link at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia March 11, 2022. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

The Brookings Sanctions Tracker

Norman Eisen, Aaron Klein, Mario Picon, Robin J. Lewis, Lilly Blumenthal, Scott Johnston, and Charlie Loudon

April 2022

British Minister of State for Middle East, North Africa and North America James Cleverly, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pose for a photo at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin, Germany January 20, 2022. Kay Nietfeld/Pool via REUTERS

Europe

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — January 2022

Monday, January 31, 2022

Blog Posts

Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pose for a picture during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia August 20, 2021. Sputnik/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Order from Chaos

Merkel’s lack of regrets illustrates the fallacies of Germany’s Russia policy

Constanze Stelzenmüller

June 21, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia's President Vladimir Putin meet for the U.S.-Russia summit at Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2021. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/Pool

Order from Chaos

U.S.-Russia relations, one year after Geneva

Steven Pifer

Thursday, June 16, 2022

Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic (R) listens to NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Wesley Clark (L) during talks in Belgrade late January 19. General Clark held crisis talks with Milosevic on Tuesday but made no progress of softening its policy on Kosovo, diplomatic sources said. Clark said the visit to Belgrade to see Milosevic was not a failure and that the meeting accomplished what it set out to do.PEK/

Order from Chaos

America’s real deterrence problem

Melanie W. Sisson

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

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Crimes against humanity, genocide, and ecocide: Of rights, responsibilities, and international order

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses South Korean parliament via video link, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine April 11, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Can Ukraine win — and what happens if Russia loses?

Fiona Hill and Ezra Klein

The Ezra Klein Show

Friday, April 8, 2022

Landfall pipes of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in Russia on Sept. 23, 2021. Germany is halting the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline in light of Russias incursion into Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday Feb 22, 2022. The undersea pipeline, meant to ferry natural gas directly from Russia to northern Germany, is owned by a subsidiary of Russias state-owned Gazprom. Berlin has previously been reluctant to impose sanctions that would affect Nord Stream 2. But at a press conference Tuesday, Scholz said that the situation today is fundamentally different and therefore, in light of recent events, we must also reassess this situation also with regard to Nord Stream 2. Shortly after, the economy ministry announced it was halting the certification process. (Nord Stream 2/EYEPRESS)

Podcast Episode

How the Ukraine war is affecting oil and gas markets

Samantha Gross and David Dollar

Monday, April 4, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a visit to the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky.

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

On Russia and the Oscars

Fiona Hill, James Carville, Al Hunt, and Jon Macks

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Russia

European security after NATO’s Madrid summit

Strategic responsibility: Rebalancing European and trans-Atlantic defense

Why is Kaliningrad at the center of a new Russia-NATO faceoff?

Strengthening the US and NATO defense postures in Europe after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Reports

Winning the web: How Beijing exploits search results to shape views of Xinjiang and COVID-19

How currency sanctions on Russia could disrupt trade with Africa

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — April 2022

The Brookings Sanctions Tracker

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — January 2022

Blog Posts

Merkel’s lack of regrets illustrates the fallacies of Germany’s Russia policy

U.S.-Russia relations, one year after Geneva

America’s real deterrence problem

Events

Russia, France, and global disorder

Crimes against humanity, genocide, and ecocide: Of rights, responsibilities, and international order

The new geopolitics of state fragility

Related Books

Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest

The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age

Imperial Gamble

Experts

Marvin Kalb

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy

Pavel K. Baev

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Angela Stent

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Multimedia

Can Ukraine win — and what happens if Russia loses?

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