This conversation with Swasti Rao, a professor at the Jindal School of International Affairs, looks at the origins of the war in Ukraine from multiple points of view, starting with its European and transatlatnic background and emphasizing the global context for this war, both in its origins and in its consequences.

A conversation with Thomas Wright, of the Brookings Institution, on the origins of the war, following two lines of inquiry, one on the European context for the war and the other on U.S.-Russian relations as a point of origin for the war.

A conversation with Sylvie Kauffmann, a distinguished French journalist, looking at European politics in the lead-up to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, at the relationship of various European countries to Russia before 2022 and at the European origins of Russia's invasion.