Russia & Eurasia

Russia and the wider Eurasian region remain central to debates over security, sovereignty, and geopolitical realignment. From Moscow’s assertive foreign policy to the evolving political and economic trajectories of states across the Caucasus and Central Asia, the region is marked by both entrenched tensions and emerging partnerships. GCIRD analyzes how domestic developments, regional power balances, and external actors shape Eurasia’s role in the international system.

Ukraine’s Peace Crossroads and the Risks of a Strategic Miscalculation

December 6, 2025

Liquidity Wars and the New Politics of Supply Chains

November 25, 2025

Trade in Financial Times and the New Fault Lines of Globalisation

November 25, 2025

Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

November 25, 2025

An Unraveling Consensus: Ukraine’s Governance Crisis, US Retrenchment, and the Strategic Costs of Corruption in Wartime

Ukraine’s corruption crisis, shifting US policy, and high-stakes peace negotiations are converging at a moment when the country must defend both its territory and the integrity of its institutions. This analysis examines how wartime governance failures, geopolitical recalibration, and Russia’s long strategy are reshaping the prospects for a durable settlement and Ukraine’s place in Europe’s security order.

An Unraveling Consensus: Ukraine’s Governance Crisis, US Retrenchment, and the Strategic Costs of Corruption in Wartime

Ukraine’s Peace Crossroads and the Risks of a Strategic Miscalculation

Trade in Financial Times and the New Fault Lines of Globalisation

Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

Europe and Russia to 2030: How a Long War Is Rebalancing Power

How the war in Ukraine is reshaping the Europe–Russia balance of power, from energy and sanctions to defence industry, demographics and global alliances,...

November 23, 2025

From Cloud Outage to Command Vulnerability: How Grid Hardware, Critical Minerals, and Chinese Industrial Policy Rewire U.S. Compute Power

The October 2025 AWS us-east-1 outage is used to show how U.S. and allied command, finance, and logistics now depend on a cloud...

November 23, 2025

How China’s Reconstruction Diplomacy Could Rewire Ukraine

Ukraine’s postwar reconstruction is often framed as a story of solidarity and recovery, yet it is also a competition over who will rebuild...

November 23, 2025

China–Russia Military Cooperation on Taiwan: How a Battalion Contract Becomes a Two-Theater Problem

China’s quiet decision to let Russia train a PLA airborne battalion for operations against Taiwan is more than a technical upgrade. It signals...

November 23, 2025

Air Superiority under Contestation: Contemporary Campaigns and the Changing Conditions of Control in the Air Domain

The article compares Russia’s failure to secure lasting air control over Ukraine with Israel’s successful long-range campaign against Iran to show how air...

November 23, 2025

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