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Risks to Democratic Consolidation in Ukraine: Strategic Stagnation by NATO and the EU, and the cautionary tale of Georgia
By Thomas Law NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO . . . We welcome the democratic reforms in Ukraine and Georgia. So read the declaration following the April 2008 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (hereafter, NATO) Summit in Bucharest. These…
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The New Face of European Grand Strategy: Promise and Peril
U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a NATO Ministerial Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on March 4, 2022. Photo: Ron Przysucha via the U.S. State Department/ Public Domain. View license here. By Blythe Gilbert Introduction In 2014, following the ousting of Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine with the intent of seizing…