Mar 3, 2025
In its war with Ukraine, Russia has targeted the environment as its most insidious means of warfare. It has blown up dams, flooded coal mines, burned down national forests, and even targeted the black sea dolphins that inhabit the waters off Ukraine’s coast. With an effort to obtain a peace agreement now underway,...
Aug 26, 2024
Conventional wisdom says that foreign policy doesn’t matter in U.S. Presidential elections. Quote “It’s the economy, stupid,” was long thought to be political gospel. But this election might be different. According to polls, a divided America cares deeply about the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East,...
May 28, 2024
This August, the world will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions on the Law of War. These seminal treaties were negotiated following the horrors of the Second World War. Their object was to lay down rules to limit the savagery of armed conflict. Every country in the world has signed them, making...
Feb 19, 2024
Two years ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia launched a massive invasion of neighboring Ukraine. The International community responded with military aid and sanctions. The U.N. expelled Russia from the Human Rights Council and the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President...