‘If Ukraine war grinds on, businesses should study UN’s Ruggie Principles’
by Rashmee
Posted on April 8, 2022
What should businesses do if the Ukraine war grinds on for a long time? What …
Read MoreCorporate moralism on Russia: Suspended between pragmatism and principle
by Rashmee
Posted on April 7, 2022
Here’s a list of companies: Nestlé, Cargill, AstraZeneca, Oreo, Halliburton and Cloudflare. They span different …
Read MoreCorporate moral philosophy on Russia: Is there such a thing?
by Rashmee
Posted on April 6, 2022
In the early days and weeks of outrage at the February 24 invasion of Ukraine, …
Read MoreUkraine
by Rashmee
Posted on April 2, 2022
Three days after Britain launched its Home for Ukraine website on March 14, more than …
Read MoreRealism about Russia, great powers and greater self-interest
by Rashmee
Posted on April 1, 2022
India and China are proving the US president wrong. Joe Biden says Russia is “isolated …
Read MorePerils and positives of the proxy war in Ukraine
by Rashmee
Posted on March 31, 2022
“The West has entered a proxy war,” writes Michael Ignatieff (paywall), professor of history at …
Read MoreA telling story about Putin’s state of mind from a European diplomat, formerly in Moscow
by Rashmee
Posted on March 30, 2022
With the US and Ukraine expressing scepticism about Russia’s pledge to “dramatically reduce” military activity …
Read MoreZelensky’s ‘camouflage chic’, unrehearsed Churchillian oratory and what victory looks like for Ukraine
by Rashmee
Posted on March 29, 2022
Three telling points emerged from Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes’s interview with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr …
Read MoreWhat is a country if it’s not a nation?
by Rashmee
Posted on March 21, 2022
Novelist Marina Lewycka’s musings about the ancient nature or not of Ukraine made me think …
Read MoreIs Ukraine really an ancient state and what is a country if it’s not a nation?
by Rashmee
Posted on March 20, 2022
Vladimir Putin has somewhat contemptuously said that Ukraine is not an ancient state; it’s not …
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