"Though the Kremlin has long portrayed Ukraine's membership in NATO as a red line, there is no need to fear Russia's response to Kyiv's accession to the alliance," Paul Poast writes.
City leaders must promote solidarity between local communities and asylum seekers, who face many of the same challenges as long-term residents, argues Valeria Castelli.
"The G-7 approach has three facets: ignore Russian intimidation, economically decouple from China and court nations throughout the Global South," Paul Poast writes.
"His national security choices helped destabilize and destroy parts of the world that have still not recovered, and many lives in the process," Elizabeth Shackelford writes.
The debate over whether the world is now multipolar goes to the heart of understanding how and why political events unfold globally, Paul Poast writes.