West Ukraine

According to the mainstream Western narrative, Vladimir Putin is an insatiable, Hitler-like expansionist who invaded Ukraine in an unprovoked land grab. That story is incorrect. In reality, the United States and NATO bear much of the responsibility for the Ukraine crisis.

A bestselling national security expert delivers a chilling analysis of how Western indecision and apathy made possible the return of brutal Russian expansionism – with catastrophic consequences. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, six US presidential administrations of both parties pursued...

The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad: “A compelling rendering of Putin’s frightening extensions of power into Europe and the United States” (Associated Press). They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England...

Der deutschen Diskussion um den Ukraine-Krieg liegt die Annahme zugrunde, dass unsere Verurteilung des russischen Angriffskriegs von der ganzen Welt geteilt wird. Diese Annahme ist jedoch unzutreffend und es ist Zeit, selbstkritisch nach den Gründen dafür zu fragen. Der russische Bruch des Gewaltverbots, der Fundamentalnorm des modernen Völkerrechts, verdient unzweifelhaft eine konsequente und nachhaltige Antwort, doch kann diese Antwort glaubwürdig vom Westen, geführt von den USA, gegeben werden?

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's "near abroad"—newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines in the wake of the global recession, the geopolitical contest that created it did not. Six years later, the specter of a revanchist Russia returned when Putin's forces invaded and annexed the Crimean peninsula. Eminent political geographer Gerard Toal moves beyond the polemical rhetoric to study the underlying territorial conflicts and geopolitical struggles.