In recent years we have become accustomed to a great deal, yet world politics continues to set new records. Or perhaps sink to new depths, depending on your taste. One week in January provided a full set of examples: the kidnapping of Venezuela’s presidential…
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Why did that cancer cell become drug-resistant? — Harvard Gazette
Harvard scientists have invented a way to create a tiny “time capsule” in cells, one that preserves an archival record of gene expression that can be retrieved long after it normally disappears.
“It’s like a time machine for the cell,” said Fei Chen, associate professor of stem…
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From Kissinger’s Nightmare to European Quagmire: Divide et Impera in U.S. Foreign Policy — Russia in Global Affairs
For citation, please use:
Müllerson, R., 2026. From Kissinger’s Nightmare to European Quagmire: Divide et Impera in U.S. Foreign Policy. Russia in Global Affairs, 24(2), pp. 22–41. DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-2-22-41The history of international relations is…
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Russia Will Nuke Germany and the UK if the War in Ukraine Continues — Russia in Global Affairs
“Nuclear escalation may open Pandora’s box, but it will also free the world from the 500-year-long Western yoke”
Sergei A. Karaganov
We will continue to strike at the Ukrainian army, because it is…
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Another Setback for Ukraine? The ICJ Declares Russia’s Counter-Claims in the Ukraine v. Russia Genocide Case Admissible – EJIL: Talk!
On 5 December 2025, the ICJ delivered its order on the admissibility of Russia’s counter-claims in the Ukraine v. Russia genocide case. It is now the second decision by the Court in this unusual ‘reverse genocide case’ (see, on this blog, Raju, Milanovic, Weller) brought by Ukraine in…
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EU Sanctions and the Undoing of International Investment Arbitration – EJIL: Talk!
Sailing Yacht A in the Gulf of Trieste, seized in 2022 under the EU sanctions regime.
It is well known that the EU has a complicated relationship with international investment arbitration. Whilst the two appear to be grounded in comparable commitments to a liberal international economic order,…
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The Middle East’s Geopolitical Landscape: Shifting Alliances and Rivalries — Russia in Global Affairs
The recent developments in the Middle East are propelling the region into a new reality characterized by uncertainty, intensified competition, conflict, and pronounced polarization among emerging powers vying for influence and dominance.
New security axes are…
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Trump’s Venezuela Move May Have Just Earned Him a Nobel Peace Prize — Russia in Global Affairs
If there were an award for Most Unfulfilled Personal Wish of the Year, Donald Trump would be the runaway winner. His desire to receive the Nobel Peace Prize has been so overt – and his actions so clearly aligned with that goal – that the disappointment is…
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Want to speed brain research? It’s all in how you look at it. — Harvard Gazette
To get a better look at brains, Harvard researchers are making microscopes work more like human eyes.
Until recently, the quest to build high-resolution maps of brains — otherwise known as “connectomes” — was stymied by the slow pace and cost of powerful electron microscopes capable…
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The Long 20th Century Is Over. A New World Is Being Built Through Self-Determination — Russia in Global Affairs
Two quotes, separated by four years, show how profoundly global politics has shifted.
The first reads: “The United States of America shall undertake to prevent further eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and deny accession to the Alliance…
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