After annexing Crimea and facilitating the secession of Donetsk and Luhansk in 2014, on 24 February 2022, Russia launched a large-scale military invasion of Ukraine to supposedly “denazify” the country, prevent its prospective accession to NATO and the European Union (EU), and demand its demilitarization.  ​The invasion has unfolded much more slowly than expected owing … Continue reading The Ukraine War and Turkey as a “Third Pole” in a New International Order