In this video, Prof. John Mearsheimer examines why deterrence failed before February 24, 2022, and why Russia began the war despite the enormous military risks. He connects his theory of conventional deterrence to the political and military decisions that preceded the invasion. Mearsheimer challenges one of the central Western assumptions about Russia’s original war aims […]
In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald interviews Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation, about the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza. De Waal discusses the use of famine as a weapon of war, comparing the current situation in Gaza to other man-made famines he has studied, including in Ethiopia, Sudan, […]