Russia-Ukraine Relations

The Russia–Ukraine conflict, as well as Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, draw light on the geopolitics of data routing and the usage of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) as a tool of control.

• Krutika Patil
• April 29, 2022
• Issue Brief

The Central Asian states have had to deal with significant economic and security challenges in the wake of the Russia–Ukraine conflict.

• Jason Wahlang
• April 27, 2022
• IDSA Comments

Russia’s military action in Ukraine has negatively impacted the cooperative engagement architecture of the Arctic Council.

• Bipandeep Sharma
• April 22, 2022
• IDSA Comments

The Orban government’s foreign and domestic policies will continue to be under the EU’s scanner, as it seeks to ramp up pressure on Russia for precipitating the worst security crisis that Europe is witnessing after the Second World War.

• Swasti Rao
• April 21, 2022
• IDSA Comments

The Russia–Ukraine conflict has put Kazakhstan’s foreign policy to a severe test. Though there are similarities between Ukraine and Kazakhstan, the NATO factor doesn’t exist in the case of the latter. In Kazakhstan’s approach to the Russia–Ukraine conflict, it is possible to discern a distinct tilt towards Russia.

• Gitesh Sarma
• April 12, 2022
• IDSA Comments

While the end state of the Russia–Ukraine conflict is still afar, an analysis of the conflict and war fighting so far, shows that there are enough early lessons for the strategic and military practitioners to decipher and take note of.

• Deepak Kumar
• March 28, 2022
• Issue Brief

With the war in Ukraine moving towards an uncertain resolution, there is a danger that the influx of heavy weaponry and foreign fighters could bring in a new set of imponderables into an already vicious and escalating conflict.

• Adil Rasheed
• March 28, 2022
• IDSA Comments

While the US, Japan and Australia have taken an overtly critical stand towards Russia at the UN, India has abstained from all the UN resolutions condemning Russia. Will divergent views over the Ukrainian crisis weaken the Quad, is a pertinent question being examined in this issue brief.

• Niranjan Chandrashekhar Oak
• March 22, 2022
• Issue Brief

With the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence, the weapons of war are becoming more technologically equipped, which is changing the battlefield scenarios, as seen in Russia’s current incursion in Ukraine.

• Sanur Sharma
• March 16, 2022
• IDSA Comments

As Yoon Suk-yeol takes charge amid global disorder and deep domestic divide, his legacy will be defined by how well he succeeds in effectively walking the talk of positioning Seoul front and centre in shaping a rules-based order in Indo-Pacific.

• Titli Basu
• March 14, 2022
• IDSA Comments