What to think about the parade that Russia held on 9 May 2015 to celebrate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in World War II? CSG Senior Fellow David Law offers his thoughts and analysis in this timely blog contribution.
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Russia’s Victory Celebrations – Militarism and its Uncomfortable Truths
By: David Law | Wednesday, May 13th, 2015Re-assessing Post-Cold War Assumptions after Russia’s Gambit in Ukraine
By: David Meadows | Friday, August 29th, 2014Since April 2014, Russia had been waging a proxy war in eastern Ukraine. Although no war was officially declared, Russia’s covert and overt support was crucial in financing, equipping, providing personnel, and supplying intelligence to the pro-Russian separatists. Still, even with such support, pro-Russian separatist rebels proved unable to counter Ukraine’s military advances. As a 
Understanding Russia’s Proxy War in Eastern Ukraine
By: David Meadows | Tuesday, August 12th, 2014Since April 2014, Russia has been waging a proxy war in eastern Ukraine, through its increasingly escalating support of pro-Russian separatists in the ersatz Donetsk Peoples Republic and Luhansk Peoples Republic. Although Moscow has repeatedly denied supporting the pro-Russian separatists, it is clear that these rebel militias are not some rag-tag grassroots self-defence organizations, simply
Backgrounder – Turmoil in Eastern Ukraine
By: Chelsea Winn | Friday, August 8th, 2014The downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 serves as a stark reminder that the crisis in Ukraine has not been resolved, despite the disappearance of the conflict from the mainstream media’s headlines in the weeks prior to the incident.
The Bear and the Panda: awkward but not impossible strategic bedfellows
By: David Law | Monday, May 19th, 2014Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on 20 May 2014. This will be the fourth time that the two leaders have met since Xi Jinping became president in 2013. Most recently, the Chinese leader was in Sochi in February for the Olympics, an event that most Western leaders shunned,
Humanitarian Intervention Advocates Vindicated
By: Zach Paikin | Wednesday, June 19th, 2013According to the dominant narrative, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine — adopted at the United Nations World Summit of 2005 — has hit a roadblock in Syria. The most prominent claim we’ve seen to date — rooted in the realist paradigm of international relations — is that R2P is a norm, and that norms
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