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Part of problem is lack of agreed definition, writes Andrew Buncombe

Indonesia, the current host for the G20 summit, has not joined the chorus of nations, particularly western countries, in condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has displaced 11 million Ukrainians and devastated its cities and towns.

A genuinely realistic assessment of the NATO expansion process of the previous decades was that it did not go far enough, was not militarily serious enough, and that, while offering Moscow an open-ended opportunity to be part of the West, the alliance was prepared to return to the containment policies…

What the John Mearsheimer controversy tells us about theory’s role in international affairs.