Amanda-Jane Eddleston

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Amanda-Jane Eddleston is a research editor and lecturer based in Hessen, Germany. She holds degrees in Business Administration and in International Relations and has worked for The Office of the Staff Judge Advocate at the Military Airlift Command for the United States Air Forces in Europe.

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President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda. Source:mil.in.ua

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Baltic states grow frustrated with West’s war balancing act

On 28 July, US President Joe Biden issued a statement marking the centenary of diplomatic relations between the…

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Analysis

The West renews its solidarity

1 July 2022 has ushered in a sea change of renewed western solidarity for international alliances. In Brussels,…

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EU, UN: focus on human rights abuses against women in Ukraine

In a resolution passed on Thursday, 5 May, in Strasbourg, the European Parliament condemned the use of rape…

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The French 2022 election highlights frailty of liberal European unity

From Lisbon to Kyiv, many capitals across Europe breathed easier on the night of Sunday, 24 April, as…

Boris Yeltsin (Russia), Bill Clinton (USA), Leonid Kuchma (Ukraine), John Major (UK) sign the Budapest Memorandum with security assurances against threats or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. (Image: AP)

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The specter of Budapest Memorandum hangs over Ukrainian negotiations, darkens the future of global security

Following the revelation of the horrific atrocities committed by Russian forces in Bucha and the surrounding areas of…

Head of the Kremlin's RT (Russia Today) news agency Dmitry Kiselyov boasting of Russia's capability to turn the US "into radioactive ash" on the country's top TV channel Rossiya1 in 2014. RT is the Kremlin's global network used to promote its policies, denigrate the West, and spread conspiracy theories beneficial to Moscow. (Image: screen capture)

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Russia’s war on Ukraine marks start of new Cold War: foreign affairs analyst

Geoffrey Miller, International Analyst with the Democracy Project, and expert in foreign affairs and New Zealand policy, agreed…

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Ukraine’s international law victories over Russia ring hollow as West rejects practical measures of support

The International Court of Justice On Wednesday, March 16th, backed by an overwhelming majority ruling of thirteen votes…

Ukrainians celebrate the introduction of the visa-free regime between Ukraine and the EU in June 2017. Photo: ukrinform.ua

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From Brexit to EU-kraine: 21st-century European unity relies on solidarity of former Soviet states

European Council President Charles Michel announced on Monday, March 7th, that the European Union would begin the procedure…

The European Parliament responding to the speech by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy regarding Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 1 March 2022 (Photo: europarl.europa.eu)

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1 March 2022 marked the end of “neutrality” in Europe

While 24 February 2022 will long be stained as the day on which the global post-Cold War stability…

Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Annalena Baerbock at a meeting with Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal on February 7, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Credit: Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine via Wikimedia Commons)

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War in Ukraine has rewritten Germany’s political ideology

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock addressed a special meeting of the German Parliament on Sunday. Her speech is…