How Trump Can Win the Peace in Ukraine
Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a Senior Faculty Fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is also Founder and Managing Director of Greenmantle LLC, a geopolitical advisory firm. You may follow him on X @nfergus.
Harry Halem is a senior fellow at Yorktown Institute, a U.S. foreign-affairs and military policy think tank. You may follow him on X @WarIntellectual. An earlier version of this essay appeared in The Atlantic in December 2024.
The West Needs a Russia Strategy
Kurt Volker is a former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and a former U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow with the Center for European Policy Analysis.
How Russia’s Quest for Influence Made It Embrace Chaos – Moscow’s Strategic Trajectory from Partner to Disruptor
Nikolas K. Gvosdev is Director of the National Security Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), where he also serves as a Senior Fellow in the Eurasia Program and Editor of FPRI’s quarterly journal of world affairs, Orbis. He is a Professor of National Security Affairs and formerly the Captain Jerome E. Levy Chair in Economic Geography and National Security at the U.S. Naval War College. You may follow him on X @FPRI_Orbis.
Imposing a Euro-American Guarantee Pact for Ukraine
Michel Foucher is a geographer and diplomat, having served as Head of the Policy Planning Staff and adviser to the French Foreign Minister (1997-2002), French Ambassador to the Baltic States (2002-2006), Ambassador at-large on EU affairs (2006), and Director of studies and research at the National Institute of Higher Defense Studies (Paris) (2009-2013). His most recent French-language books include Ukraine-Russie, la carte mentale du duel (2022) and Ukraine, une guerre coloniale en Europe (2022).
Fear and Resentment in the Kremlin – How Putin’s Grievances Fueled Renewed Instability in Europe
Sergey Radchenko is Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. A Cold War historian, he has written extensively on Russia and the Soviet Union. His latest book To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power was published in 2024. You may follow him on X @DrRadchenko.
The New Iron Curtain – Post-war Ukraine and its Position in the Emerging Regional Order
Jakub Korejba is a Polish political scientist and Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Eurasian Studies (AVIM) in Ankara. He is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of History and International Relations at Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development in Belgrade, Serbia.