What to read about the Ukraine crisis? 30 articles for your consideration
As I was thinking about the cacophony of information about the crisis in Ukraine, I mused about the fact that I haven’t seen a book-length treatment to suggest to you.
However, there have been a number of interesting articles, and I’ve assembled a rather subjective list of them. This is not a comprehensive collection addressing every aspect of this complicated war, and I don’t necessarily agree with everything in them, but I do think they raise important issues.
Most are fairly brief, but collectively I think they amount to a short ‘book’ of sorts. Anyway, here for your consideration (arranged chronologically):
- Mark Nevitt, Climate Security, Energy Security, and the Russia-Ukraine War, Just Security, May 11, 2022.
- Elliot A. Cohen, What Victory Will Look Like in Ukraine, The Atlantic, May 11, 2022.
- Katrina vanden Heuvel, Endless war in Ukraine hurts national and global security, Washington Post, May 11, 2022.
- Jeff Schogol, Russia actually isn’t as good at information warfare as everyone thought, Task & Purpose, May 11, 2022.
- U.S. Dep’t of Defense, Fact Sheet on U.S. Security Assistance for Ukraine, May 10, 2022.
- Margarita Konaev and Polina Beliakova, Can Ukraine’s Military Keep Winning?, Foreign Affairs, May 9, 2022.
- Phillips Payson O’Brien and Edward Stringer, The Overlooked Reason Russia’s Invasion Is Floundering, The Atlantic, May 9, 2022.
- Michael N. Schmitt, Ukraine Symposium – Are We at War?, Articles of War, May 9, 2022.
- David E. Johnson, This is What the Russians Do, Lawfire, May 3, 2022.
- Elliott Abrams, The Ukraine War, China, and Taiwan, Council on Foreign Relations, May 3, 2022.
- Elizabeth Braw, Ukraine’s Digital Fight Goes Global, Foreign Affairs, May 2, 2022.
- Ian Lovett, Citizens’ Images of Potential War Crimes in Ukraine Flood the Internet, but Might Not Hold Up in Court, Wall Street Journal, Apr. 30, 2022.
- Editorial Board, Can Sanctions Really Stop Putin?, New York Times, Apr. 27, 2022.
- Hal Brands, Ukraine War Is Depleting America’s Arsenal of Democracy, Bloomberg.com, Apr. 14, 2022.
- Joseph Gedeon, Why prosecuting Russian war crimes in Ukraine could be complicated, POLITICO, Apr. 13, 2022.
- Larry Korb and Stephen Cimbala, Why the War in Ukraine Poses a Greater Nuclear Risk than the Cuban Missile Crisis, Just Security, Apr. 12, 2022.
- Adam Taylor, How isolated is Russia, really?, Washington Post, Apr. 8, 2022.
- Rebecca Kheel, Milley Says Ukrainians Using Land Mines ‘Effectively,’ Reopening Debate About Controversial Weapons, Military.com, Apr. 7, 2022.
- Andrew Exum, The Russian Military Has Descended Into Inhumanity, The Atlantic, Apr. 6, 2022.
- Sudarsan Raghavan, Russia has killed civilians in Ukraine. Kyiv’s defense tactics add to the danger, Washington Post, Mar. 28, 2022.
- Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Exacerbates Hunger in Middle East, North Africa, Human Rights Watch, Mar. 21, 2022.
- Katie Polglase, Gianlica Mezzofiore, and Livvy Doherty, Anatomy of the Mariupol Hospital Attack, CNN, Mar. 17, 2022.
- Alison Durkee, Americans Overwhelmingly Don’t Want U.S. To Risk War With Russia In Aiding Ukraine, Poll Finds, Forbes, Mar. 16, 2022.
- Jonathan Turley, Fight for your country? Ukrainians will but Americans torn in new poll. That’s a problem, Fox News (Opinion), Mar. 14, 2022.
- Eric Chang, Why Ukraine Is Calling for a Special Criminal Tribunal to Prosecute Putin, Lawfire, Mar. 10, 2022.
- Ingrid Wuerth, International Law and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Lawfare, Feb. 28, 2022.
- Stuart Swetland, Russia’s Invasion Is Defeat for Humanity — How Should We Respond?, Nat’l Catholic Register, Feb. 28, 2022.
- The Ukraine crisis and the international law of armed conflict (LOAC): some Q & A, Lawfire, Feb. 27, 2022.
- Are we ready for war in the infosphere?, Lawfire, Feb. 20, 2022.
Remember what we like to say on Lawfire®: gather the facts, examine the law, evaluate the arguments – and then decide for yourself!
