Acting like a madman can make coercion more plausible, but it also raises the costs of conflict resolution.

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Despite constant attacks that inflict nonstop hardship on Ukrainians, Putin has failed to break their will, writes Seth Stodder.

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Prisoner releases mostly reflect the regime’s growing confidence five years after seizing power in a coup, Andrew Nachemson writes.

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“Land,” by far Maggie O’Farrell’s most ambitious work, spans continents and millenia, all while remaining deeply rooted in one plot of earth on an unnamed Irish peninsula, FP’s Chloe Hadavas writes.

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While Europe has been buffeted by a host of external rivals, it has also shown a remarkable capacity to adapt, writes Dimitar Bechev.

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Herta Müller’s memoir provides a visceral and more complete depiction of life under tyranny, and shows how art can serve as a means of both survival and commemoration, writes Laura Mills.

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Colombia demonstrates that a comprehensive understanding of the violence created by state collapse and corruption—rather than merely holding elections—is required, argue Alexandra Farsari and Christopher Sabatini.

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Trump and Putin are backing different players in a contested country, Ani Chkhikvadze writes.

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How Europe has learned to live with great-power politics.

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Resilience, technology, and European support have put Russia on the back foot.

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In a new memoir, Nobel laureate Herta Müller condemns her homeland for failing to reconcile with history.

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An example—albeit an imperfect one—of how to achieve a lasting peace.

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Like Nixon before him, Trump is learning that the madman theory sounds better in theory than in practice, writes Daniel W. Drezner.