Ignoring these wise words, much more powerful US interests feared the economic threat to US hegemony posed by a Greater Eurasia of 630 million inhabitants. The Turkish public has a comparable world view, seeing almost everyone predominantly as a “partner,” whether it is the US (51 per cent), China (47 per cent), Russia (55 per cent), or the EU (53 per cent). Although many observers doubt an invasion is imminent, the CIA recently warned China has plans to take Taiwan by 2027 and the world is now watching closely.

The International Court of Justice demanded Russia ‘immediately suspend the military operations’ in Ukraine. His decision to stand firm and face the horrors of war with his people, despite being headhunted by mercenaries, was hugely significant,’ she says.As a UN Security Council member entrusted to maintain international peace and security, there was a sense of déjà vu with the US-led invasion of Iraq, and Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. The war also cast a spotlight into some hitherto dark corners of the Russian – and Western economies, waking the world up to the issue of Russian and regional kleptocracy. And my background is I have an undergraduate degree in European History from the University of Pennsylvania. leading in a very bad direction that is dangerous and harmful, not only for the United States and Europe, but perhaps especially for Ukraine itself, for Russia and for the rest of the world in terms of risk of nuclear war. Last but not least, considering the poll scope and questionnaire, the results from Russia and China need to be interpreted with caution, bearing in mind possibility that some respondents might have felt constrained in expressing their opinions freely.

The straw men, the glaring omissions and skewed characterisations make it very clear the author is bringing a great deal of prejudice to this question. He says: ‘There are significant potentials for disruptive weather ahead, and whilst the cost-of-living squeeze remains, the global situation remains very fragile. For starters, the fact that NATO has deployed nuclear-capable weapons systems within range of Russia’s capital was a bit of a shock. The dizzying speed of coordinated global sanctions on an unprecedented scale catalysed a domino effect of mass corporate exits from Russia.So I think some degree of self-education is important, some degree of critical questioning of the sources that one is relying on, and then, ultimately, when one feels one has a better understanding of what’s going on, to try to take political action to influence policies. This marked a change from the ethnic identity divides which had previously defined Ukrainian elections and saw Zelenskyy become the manifestation of a new modern Ukraine where values and a turn towards Europe mattered more than language and local identity.

The power of Zelenskyy, despite being from a Russian-speaking part of Ukraine, is that in 2019 he garnered support across different regions and generations around change, fighting corruption and bringing peace, says Lutsevych. In particular, the programme delves into relations between the African Union and the European Union to find creative foreign policy tools and strategies. But people in those countries see themselves very differently: as emerging great powers that may side with the West on some issues but not on others. This happened with Iraq that has won the war against Iran, now the Kuwaitis asked for the ten billion dollars that was supposed as an aid.It is a very interesting book that clearly substantiates the alternativ Russia’s brutal assault on Ukraine has taken a heavy toll on its citizens but has also united the country in a way not seen before. S., and the last sentence is “follow updates on this visit, which comes amid news that Russians have been hunting down, torturing and killing Ukrainians whose names are on lists.

Susi Dennison, Josef Lolacher, and Anand Sundar made sensitive and useful suggestions on the substance.This is a game-changer in the way that Europe in particular is looking at African energy to help in the energy transition. The war has probably brought forward decarbonization by five to ten years,’ says Froggatt although huge and unparalleled expansion in capacity of offshore wind, solar, and other sources will be needed to meet targets.