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War & Peace
War and Peace is a podcast series from the International Crisis Group. Olga Oliker and Elissa Jobson interview experts about all things Europe and its neighbourhood from Russia to Turkey and beyond. Their guests shed new light on everything that helps or hinders prospects for peace. A podcast member of the EuroPod production network.
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Episodes
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A Political Shake-up in Serbia, Business as Usual in Bosnia?
In this episode of War & Peace, guest host Fabienne Hara speaks with Crisis Group’s consulting senior analyst for the Balkans, Marko Prelec, about the…
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Do the Laws of War Still Matter in Ukraine and Beyond?
This week on War & Peace, Olga speaks with Yale Law School professor Oona Hathaway and Crisis Group expert Brian Finucane about international humanitarian law…
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War, Politics and Chauvinism in Russia and Across Europe
This week on War & Peace, Olga speaks with Sabine Fischer, senior fellow at SWP, about her book “The Chauvinist Threat: Russia’s War and the West’s Response”…
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NATO in Türkiye/Türkiye in NATO
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga is joined by Galip Dalay, senior research fellow at Chatham House, to discuss Türkiye’s evolving relations with NATO and…
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Hungary – and Europe – After Orbán
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga is joined by Zsuzsanna Végh, Program Officer with the German Marshall Fund, to discuss the aftermath of Hungary’s…
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EU and NATO Members Grapple with War in Iran
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga is joined by Crisis Group’s head of EU affairs, Lisa Musiol, to take stock of how the EU and European capitals have…
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Cold Hard Truths: Arctic Security in a Changing World
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga is joined by Gabriella Gricius, Senior Fellow at the Arctic Institute and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of…
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Bonus Episode: A Transport Route to Peace in the South Caucasus?
Today, we're bringing you a bonus episode from Crisis Group's global podcast, Hold Your Fire! In this episode of Hold Your Fire!, Richard Atwood speaks with…
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Can Europe Solve Its U.S. Dilemma?
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Alissa are joined by Nathalie Tocci, director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome, to discuss how European…
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Karabakh Refugees in Armenia
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga Oliker and Alissa de Carbonnel are joined by Joshua Kucera, Crisis Group’s Senior Analyst for the South Caucasus, to…
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How Ukraine’s Women Are Meeting the Challenges of War
In this episode of War & Peace, Elissa and guest host Alissa de Carbonnel are joined by Sabine Freizer Gunes, UN Women representative for Ukraine, about how…
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A Bigger Table? The Case for More Global Diplomacy over Ukraine
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and guest host Alissa de Carbonnel are joined by Bob Deen, Head of the Security Unit at the Clingendael Institute, to…
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Elliptical Orbit? Belarusian Foreign Policy in Fraught Times
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa speak with Valery Kavaleuski, former Belarusian diplomat and Executive Director of the Euro-Atlantic Affairs…
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Down, But Not Out? Russia’s Shifting Role in a Turbulent Middle East
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga Oliker speaks with Hanna Notte, Director for Eurasia at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and a…
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More Europe, Less U.S.? What to Expect from the NATO Summit
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa speak with Dr. Pia Fuhrhop, head of the International Security Research Division at SWP, about the upcoming…
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Ukraine: The Battlefield and the Negotiating Table
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa speak with Crisis Group’s senior Ukraine analyst, Lucian Kim, about how the war in Ukraine is evolving and what…
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The Authoritarian Playbook Explained
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa talk with political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann to unpack how aspiring authoritarian leaders transform…
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Latin America’s Evolving Drug Trade. Why It Matters for Europe
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa talk with Crisis Group’s Latin America program director Renata Segura and senior Colombia analyst Elizabeth…
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Bonus Episode: Trump, France and European Security
Today, we're bringing you a bonus episode from Crisis Group's global podcast, Hold Your Fire! In this episode of Hold Your Fire!, Richard Atwood is joined by…
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After Assad – Implications for Türkiye in Syria and Beyond
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa speak with Berkay Mandıracı, Crisis Group’s senior Türkiye analyst, about Ankara’s evolving role in Syria…
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What 2025 Could Mean for the War in Ukraine and the Ukrainian and Russian Armed Forces
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa are joined by Michael Kofman, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment specialising in Ukrainian and Russian…
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Lucian Kim on Russia, Ukraine and His New Book “Putin’s Revenge”
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga Oliker speaks with Lucian Kim, Crisis Group’s Senior Ukraine analyst, about his new book “Putin’s Revenge: Why Russia…
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A New European Commission Faces a Fast-changing World
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa are joined by Lisa Musiol, head of EU affairs to discuss the challenges facing the new European Commission…
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What Next for Georgia and Its Breakaway Regions after Contested Elections?
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa are joined by Tbilisi-based journalist Joshua Kucera to discuss Georgia’s contested parliamentary elections and…
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U.S. Elections: Trump, Harris and Transatlantic Relations
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa speak with Jeremy Shapiro, U.S. Program Director at the European Council on Foreign Relations, about what the…
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A Still-fraught Path to Peace for Armenia and Azerbaijan
In the first episode of a new season of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa talk with Konul De Moor, Crisis Group’s consulting South Caucasus Analyst, about the…
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Prisoners of the Past? Political Crises and Ethnic Tensions in the Western Balkans
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga speaks with Crisis Group’s consulting senior Balkans analyst Marko Prelec about the enduring political and ethnic tensions…
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A Long War in Ukraine? Perspectives from Kyiv and Washington
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa speak with Lucian Kim, senior Ukraine analyst at Crisis Group, about how perspectives on the war in Ukraine are…
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Could Far-Right Electoral Gains Upend EU Foreign Policy?
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa speak with Crisis Group’s senior EU analyst Marta Mucznik and Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on…
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Moldova’s Restive Separatists, Russia Worries, and EU Aspirations
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa speak with Crisis Group’s Oleg Ignatov, Senior Russia Analyst, and Marta Mucznik, Senior EU Analyst, about…
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Can Nuclear Arms Control Survive a Changing World Order?
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa talk to Joe Cirincione, author and a leading expert on arms control and national security, about the demise of…
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Two Years Into Full-Scale War, What Ukraine Needs and What its Backers Can Give
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa are joined by Alissa de Carbonnel, Crisis Group’s Deputy Europe and Central Asia Director, and Simon Schlegel…
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Maritime Security in the Red Sea: What Role for the EU?
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa are joined by Camille Lons, visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, to talk about how…
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Is Moscow the Big Winner from War in the Middle East?
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa are joined by Hanna Notte, Director for Eurasia at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, to…
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Europe’s Struggle to Respond to the Gaza War
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa talk with Julien Barnes-Dacey, Middle East and North Africa Program Director at the European Council on Foreign…
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Time to Talk? Assessing the Plausibility of Negotiations in the Russo-Ukrainian War
In this episode of War & Peace, Olga talks with Samuel Charap, Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation, about whether the current moment makes…
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Why Women Fight: Gender Dynamics in Insurgencies and Armies
Throughout history, women have been involved in conflict: as soldiers, as insurgents and as civilians. Yet, the ways in which men and women are treated on and…
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The Days After: Humanitarian Crisis and Prospects for Peace in Karabakh and the Region
In the first episode of a new season of War & Peace, Olga Oliker is joined by Crisis Group’s South Caucasus experts, Olesya Vartanyan and Zaur Shiriyev, to…
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NATO’s Vilnius Summit and Baltic Security
On 12 July, NATO concluded its two-day summit in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. At the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the decision to hold the…
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Ukraine’s Male Travel Ban and the Protection of Civilians in Wartime
War, by definition, takes terrible tolls on civilian populations. Just what risks a given person faces depends on many factors, including gender, class and…
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The War in Ukraine: Rallying Point for the Left or New Neocon Adventure?
Western support for Ukraine’s war against Russia has faced continued scrutiny. Critics have compared the conflict to past American wars of choice, such as the…
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Bonus Episode: Is This the End? Wagner in Russia, Ukraine and Africa
Today we're bringing you a bonus episode on the attempted insurrection by Wagner forces in Russia from Crisis Group's global podcast Hold Your Fire! Over the…
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Escalation in Northern Kosovo: Causes, Dangers and Prospects
On 29 May, a group of ethnic Serb protesters clashed with troops of the NATO peacekeeping force KFOR in the town of Zvečan in northern Kosovo. Demonstrators…
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What to Expect from Five More Years of President Erdoğan in Türkiye
This week on War & Peace, Olga Oliker speaks with Crisis Group’s Türkiye Director Nigar Göksel about the Turkish elections and how President Erdoğan’s new term…
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Increasingly At Odds: What’s Shaping the EU-China Relationship?
The EU’s relations with China have long been complex. With China’s influence expanding globally and the U.S. increasingly viewing Beijing as its primary…
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Protests and Far-Right Politics in Israel and Europe
Israel’s new governing far-right coalition under Benjamin Netanyah has proposed judicial reform that would weaken the country’s judiciary. In response…
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Protests in Georgia and Tbilisi’s Complicated Relationships with Russia and the West
In early March, Georgians took to the street in Tbilisi to protest a bill that would have classified organisations and media groups receiving more than 20 per…
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Bert Koenders on the War in Ukraine and the Future of Europe
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has marked a watershed for Europe. The European Union (EU) and its member states acted quickly to implement sanctions…
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Tribunal on the Crime of Aggression: Faint Prospect or Realistic Probability?
This episode of War & Peace draws on a live Twitter Spaces discussion between Olga Oliker, Elissa Jobson, Crisis Group’s UN Director Richard Gowan and its…
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Ukraine’s Jews, Israel and the War
Accusations of anti-semitism and nazism have been a leitmotif of the Russian-Ukrainian war from its start. Russian propaganda has consistently accused…
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Kazakhstan One Year After "Bloody January"
2022 was a turbulent year for Kazakhstan. In early January, anti-government protests erupted across the country. The resulting clashes between police and…
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Catherine Ashton on Diplomacy, Ukraine, and Her New Book
From 2009 to 2014, Catherine Ashton served as the European Union’s (EU) first high representative for foreign affairs and security policy. In that role, she…
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Understanding the Latest Escalation in Türkiye’s PKK Conflict
On 13 November, a bomb detonated in Istanbul’s busy Istiklal Avenue, killing six and wounding 81 people. Ankara blamed the attack on the PKK, a Kurdish…
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Making Sense of Russia’s Changing Role in Africa
For more than a decade, Russia has made a concerted effort to strengthen its influence on the African continent. It has had some success. In countries like the…
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A Closer Look at Ukraine’s Donbas after Russia’s Occupation
If war reached most of Ukraine in February of 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion, the country’s eastern Donbas region has been torn apart by…
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The Still-Perilous Path Toward Peace Between Armenia and Azerbaijan
It has been almost two years since a November 2020 ceasefire deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan ended a brutal six-week war. While the Moscow-brokered deal…
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Bosnia and Herzegovina After the Elections
More than two weeks after the elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 2 October, the country’s political future remains uncertain. While reformist and moderate…
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Taking Stock of Russia’s Military Performance in Ukraine
On 21 September, Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation in Russia, marking a major escalation of the war in Ukraine. According to Russia’s Defence…
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6.3 Million IDPs and a Humanitarian Crisis: Ukraine’s “New Normal”
Even if the war in Ukraine ended tomorrow, the country’s humanitarian needs would be colossal. Around 6.3 million people are displaced internally, with many…
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What it Means to Demine in Ukraine and Afghanistan
Landmines remain a tool of warfare around the world. Yet both during and after fighting, they wreak havoc not just on adversaries, but also on the civilian…