Author: Rudolf G. Adam, Former vice president of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service.

Published 2023 by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law in association with the Grotius Centre for International Law, Leiden University)

The Kremlin promotes a variety of anti-Western and pro-Russian ``master narratives'' across its propaganda platforms, both within Russia and abroad. Russian government propagandists subscribe to these narratives and follow them to craft and frame disinformation campaigns that advance the Kremlin's positions and interests. Master narratives employed by Kremlin propagandists, include the following:

The Russian-West conflict is perceived as a confrontation of the systems of values: traditional and conservative values versus tolerance-blemished European ones; spiritual Russian ones versus material European ones.

Author: Derrick Wyatt K.C., Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Oxford. Former adviser to Fide.

The next US Presidential election will be in November 2024. With Trump and Biden neck to neck in the opinion polls, a Trump win seems a distinct possibility. That would place in doubt US support for Ukraine and commitment to NATO, and it could even lead to US withdrawal from the alliance. Either scenario would profoundly affect NATO's European allies. Could they and would they rally round and fill any US defense deficit?

1. On his first day in office, Trump says he'd appoint a special counsel to investigate Joe Biden’s family, including his son Hunter and his family’s revenues.

1. Austria, Vienna (Jurisdiction: Austria, Hungtary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic)
2. Belgium, Brussels (Jurisdiction: EU)
3. Denmark, Copenhagen (Jurisdiction: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
4. France, Paris (Jurisdiction France, Unesco, Oecd, Council of Europe)
5. Germany, Berlin (Jurisdiction: Germany)
6. Italy, Rome (Jurisction: Italy, FAO, WFP, IFAD)
7. Netherlands, The Hague (Jurisdiction: Netherlands)
8. Poland, Warsaw: Jurisdiction, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)

General Delegations

1. In the Netherlands the far-right populist PVV (Freedom Party), led by Geert Wilders is expected to win between 35 and 37 of the 150 seats in the Dutch House of Representatives; it previously held just 16.
2. In Poland, the Law and Justice party (PiS) lost its majority in the October 2023 parliamentary elections. Nevertheless, it remains in front, and the PiS currently holds 35 percent of seats (42 percent when including its coalition partners).

Author: Eliot A. Cohen: Eliot Cohen is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is the Arleigh Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies,