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Center for International Relations
and Sustainable Development

Africa’s Place in a New Global (Dis)order

Dr. Vasu Gounden is Executive Director of the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD). Dr. Andrea Prah is a Researcher at ACCORD. You may follow their organization on Twitter @ACCORD_online.

The World Order in Crisis

Sir Mark Lyall Grant is a Visiting Professor at King’s College London, having previously served as National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the country’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations. You may follow him on Twitter @LyallGrant.

Strategic Choices for Small States

Dejan Jović is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Zagreb and Visiting Professor at the University of Belgrade. He is Chairman of the Zagreb-based Foreign Policy Forum and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. You may follow him on Twitter @DejanFpzg.

Human Security: Virtuous, Practical, Urgent, and Necessary

Jonathan Granoff is President of the Global Security Institute, Senior Advisor to the Committee on National Security of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association, and Representative to the United Nations of the World Summits of Nobel Peace Laureates.

The Rise of Eurasia and the Ukraine War

Irina Busygina is a Visiting Scholar of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, having previously served as Professor of Politics at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg and Professor of Comparative Politics at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO).

The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine War

John J. Mearsheimer is R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. This lecture was delivered at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy on June 16th, 2022. Its written version is published with permission.

What Putin Fears Most

Michael McFaul is a Professor of political science at Stanford University, Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, having previously served as U.S. ambassador to Moscow. You may follow him on Twitter @mcfaul. Robert Person is an Associate Professor of international relations at the U.S. Military Academy. You may follow him on Twitter @RTPerson3. This essay originally appeared in the April 2022 issue of the Journal of Democracy.

Why Russia Invaded Ukraine

Taras Kuzio is a Professor of political science at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and an Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. He has authored a number of books on Ukraine and Russo-Ukrainian relations, the latest of which is entitled Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War (2022). You may follow him on Twitter @TarasKuzio.