Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked international concern and condemnation. Yet perhaps none are paying more attention to the Ukraine crisis than Beijing. While the rest of the world waits with bated breath, Chinese President Xi Jinping is considering how he might emulate his fellow autocrat’s strategy to engineer a crisis that would compel Taiwanese concessions through the threat of…
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On March 31, 1939, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced a new strategic alliance. “In the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence…His Majesty’s Government would feel themselves bound at once to lend the Polish Government all support in their power…I may add that the French Government has authorized me to make it plain that they stand in…
Last year, the 1951 Refugee Convention, the main international instrument granting refugees and asylum seekers fundamental human rights, celebrated its 70th anniversary. However, a growing number of European countries are failing to uphold the right to asylum guaranteed in the Convention. EU policy has strayed far from the commitments that member states made in the Convention. During the past years,…
The recently heightened tensions between Russia and Ukraine, after numerous years of low-scale conflict, is more than a conflict between a former superpower and its former region. For NATO, the conflict is proof of its relevance more than 70 years after the organization’s inception. For the European Union, the conflict is a critical moment in the ongoing efforts to bolster…