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Democracy

Putin’s Atom

An excerpt from Paul Josephson’s Nuclear Russia

April 26, 2023 • by Paul Josephson

The concept of preempting an enemy’s nuclear weapons that was a central point of Soviet military thought has been reiterated by President Vladimir Putin....

Nuclear Russia and Its Enemies

Paul Josephson on the Russian peaceful—and not-so-peaceful—atom

April 26, 2023 • by Anastasia Shteinert and Paul Josephson

In an interview with Anastasia Shteinert, author Paul Josephson his new book "Nuclear Russia: The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture."...

Europe & Central Asia

Canceling the West, Putin Aims to “Make Russia Great Again”

The fact that anti-Western rhetoric is increasingly popular in Russia should be a wake-up call for Europe and the U.S.

March 1, 2023 • by Anastasia Shteinert

What is happening now in the country is the reappearance and radicalization of a centuries-old resentment of the West, in the context of the war in Ukraine....

Canceling the West, Putin Aims to “Make Russia Great Again”

Europe & Central Asia

From Putin’s Chef to Kremlin’s Chief?

Why Yevgeny Prigozhin, a leader of the Wagner Group, can’t challenge Putin for power

February 14, 2023 • by Anastasia Shteinert

So long as Putin retains his legitimacy as a “strong leader,” it is extremely premature to talk about an impending coup or a threat from Prigozhin or anyone else....

<strong>From Putin’s Chef to Kremlin’s Chief?</strong>

Social Research

Conspiracy Thinking, the New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its latest issue

November 10, 2022 • by Social Research

The Fall 2022 issue of Social Research tackles the subject of conspiracy thinking, from ungoverning to elective affinity....

Conspiracy Thinking, the New Issue of <em>Social Research</em>

Europe & Central Asia

Life on Earth: Repeating Myself about the Putin Revelation

It is time to rekindle the founders’ hope for the United Nations

October 26, 2022 • by James Carroll

It is time to rekindle the founders’ hope for the United Nations. Like ours can be, that hope first came in the form of determination to push back against the weaponized atom—that General Assembly call in 1946 to reject the nuclear bomb. The 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear ...

Life on Earth: Repeating Myself about the Putin Revelation

Europe & Central Asia

People’s War and Nuclear Fear: The Anti-War Left and Ukraine

A response to James Carroll’s reckoning with peace activism

October 26, 2022 • by Jeremy Varon

America was duty-bound to save Ukrainian lives, if at the expense of Ukraine’s sovereignty. But there is an uncomfortable arrogance to this argument, framed as tough love. Perhaps the Ukrainians themselves should determine what’s worth fighting and dying for, not the U.S....

People’s War and Nuclear Fear: The Anti-War Left and Ukraine

Europe & Central Asia

Robert Jay Lifton on Psychic Numbing and the Warning from Ukraine

The renewed threat of nuclear war—and the importance of distinguishing between fear and anxiety

October 25, 2022 • by James Carroll and Robert Jay Lifton

Nuclear complacency is multifaceted. A certain amount of nuclear fear is appropriate to our situation. When we give in to what you’re calling nuclear complacency, it’s because we have insufficient fear of what is actually dangerous....

Robert Jay Lifton on Psychic Numbing and the Warning from Ukraine

Europe & Central Asia

Might the U.S. Military Support Nuclear Disarmament?

Its senior leadership is uniquely positioned in the present moment to pursue a revolutionary possibility

October 24, 2022 • by Robert Edwards

It is often difficult in the moment to recognize when one is at a crossroads. In the 1991 Gulf War, I was a lowly tactical intelligence officer in a parachute infantry regiment of the 82nd Airborne, rolling through the Iraqi desert beneath an air campaign that left smoldering charcoal where ...

Might the U.S. Military Support Nuclear Disarmament?

Politics

Giorgia Meloni and the Far Right’s Transatlantic Turn

Italy’s formerly fascist party aligns itself with American Republicans, British Conservatives, and Likud in Israel

October 3, 2022 • by Lucas Dolan

Giorgia Meloni now represents a cadre of European far-right leaders whose views are fully legible to the American Far Right. ...

Giorgia Meloni and the Far Right’s Transatlantic Turn

Europe & Central Asia

Different People

After fleeing war-ravaged Kharkiv, many have found refuge and hospitality in Poltava. How does it feel to be an internally displaced person in one’s own city of birth?

September 12, 2022 • by Andrei Krasniashchikh

The displaced can be recognized by their backpacks and the plastic bags they’re carrying, filled with humanitarian aid. Also, by their rapid pace. The displaced move fast: from explosion to explosion. ...

Europe & Central Asia

Making Sense of the War

As the shock of war gives way to reflection, Ukrainian public discourse has turned to questions of the past, present and future

July 6, 2022 • by Tatiana Zhurzhenko

In Ukraine, the initial shock, anger, and sorrow have slowly given way to the sober realization that the war is not going to end soon. The first month passed like one day, but meanwhile, the feeling of time has returned. People and institutions are adjusting and even trying to make ...

Vladimir Putin

Putin’s Atom

An excerpt from Paul Josephson’s Nuclear Russia

Nuclear Russia and Its Enemies

Paul Josephson on the Russian peaceful—and not-so-peaceful—atom

Canceling the West, Putin Aims to “Make Russia Great Again”

The fact that anti-Western rhetoric is increasingly popular in Russia should be a wake-up call for Europe and the U.S.

From Putin’s Chef to Kremlin’s Chief?

Why Yevgeny Prigozhin, a leader of the Wagner Group, can’t challenge Putin for power

Life on Earth: Repeating Myself about the Putin Revelation

It is time to rekindle the founders’ hope for the United Nations

People’s War and Nuclear Fear: The Anti-War Left and Ukraine

A response to James Carroll’s reckoning with peace activism

Robert Jay Lifton on Psychic Numbing and the Warning from Ukraine

The renewed threat of nuclear war—and the importance of distinguishing between fear and anxiety

Might the U.S. Military Support Nuclear Disarmament?

Its senior leadership is uniquely positioned in the present moment to pursue a revolutionary possibility

Giorgia Meloni and the Far Right’s Transatlantic Turn

Italy’s formerly fascist party aligns itself with American Republicans, British Conservatives, and Likud in Israel

Different People

After fleeing war-ravaged Kharkiv, many have found refuge and hospitality in Poltava. How does it feel to be an internally displaced person in one’s own city of birth?

Making Sense of the War

As the shock of war gives way to reflection, Ukrainian public discourse has turned to questions of the past, present and future

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