Last week Alex Mayhew's book, Making Sense of the Great War, was published by Cambridge University Press. His monograph explores the morale, identities, perceptions, and sense making of infantrymen and reveals how they coped with and responded to crisis. More here: buff.ly/3xHpfRa

We have a super interesting event at SAIS-Europe on May 7 on the Russia/Ukraine war. With: Veronica Anghel, Hal Brands, Keith Gessen, Shashank Joshi and Michael Kofman. bipr.jhu.edu/events/4795-Th…. It's public and hybrid. Those in Bologna and/or Italy, come join in person. Those online, do

Interesting. Do I understand it correctly that 30 minutes includes loading missiles and fueling the aircraft?

Kant and the case for peace on.ft.com/3JnZvvU

“The really interesting debate that is happening between the establishment right and the populist right is [about] challenging the premise … that things are going really well,” Vance told me
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It's time to address some of the points raised by the esteemed commentariat. But, first of all, thank you for your engagement. Samuel Charap and I expected that the article would be of interest, and we were certainly not disappointed.

This is a total misunderstanding of how expertise works. An expert is someone who knows the issue, not the one who toes the party line. The logic in this thread looks like it's taken straight out of a Lubyanka manual

It does appear that Russia and Ukraine were seriously and earnestly negotiating an end to the war, which could have come as early as late April 2022 if the talks succeeded. They failed. We tried to understand why.

Great talk about a brilliant book. Recommended!

It is finally here. The long-awaited biography of Zhou Enlai by the preeminent diplomatic historian Chen Jian. So looking forward to reading a scholarly examination of this exalted yet enigmatic Chinese leader. Thank goodness the semester ends next week.

A top EU court has struck down sanctions against Russian oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven, citing insufficient evidence they backed Putin's war against Ukraine. The ruling's a major blow to the EU’s sanctions regime against Moscow:

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