
The Case for Nordic and NATO Realism
May 20, 2022 warns that Finland and Sweden’s membership of the Alliance risks weakening their security and that of Europe.
Robert Skidelsky, a member of the British House of Lords and Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University, was a non-executive director of the private Russian oil company PJSC Russneft from 2016 to 2021. The author of a three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, he began his political career in the Labour party, became the Conservative Party’s spokesman for Treasury affairs in the House of Lords, and was eventually forced out of the Conservative Party for his opposition to NATO’s intervention in Kosovo in 1999.
May 20, 2022 warns that Finland and Sweden’s membership of the Alliance risks weakening their security and that of Europe.
Apr 19, 2022 identifies fundamental flaws in the argument that dictatorship is the main barrier to world peace.
Mar 18, 2022 worries that the West's punitive measures may lead toward, rather than away from, a wider war.
Feb 15, 2022 explains why abandoning the myth of an apolitical Games could help to promote peace.
Jan 19, 2022 suggests how Russia and the West might reach a modus vivendi regarding Ukraine and Belarus.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February has stoked fears that Chinese President Xi Jinping is plotting his own aggression against Taiwan. The United States and its NATO allies seem to be “all in” on repelling Russia’s invasion, but how far will the US be willing to go to defend Taiwan, and has its longstanding policy of “strategic ambiguity” on that question really run its course?