Ukraine

• Editor's Note

  by William McKenzie, Senior Editorial Advisor and Editor of The Catalyst

The War's Consequences

• Never Underestimate Ukrainians

  Essay by David J. Kramer, the Bradford M. Freeman Managing Director of Global Policy at the Bush Institute

• Displaced People Need Democracies’ Welcoming Hands

  Essay by Laura Collins, Director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative

• The Economic Impacts of the War in Ukraine

  Conversation with Gary Cohn, former Chief Economic Advisor to President Donald Trump and former Director of the National Economic Council

Liberalism v. Authoritarianism

• Authoritarian Breadcrumbs Predated Russia’s Ukrainian Invasion

  Essay by Natalie Gonnella-Platts, Director of Women's Advancement at the Bush Institute

• How Democracies Should Respond in a Post-Fact World

  Essay by Laura Thornton, Senior Fellow and Director at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund.

• Liberalism, Not Orbanism, Should Prevail

  Essay by Christopher Walsh, Deputy of Director of Freedom and Democracy at the Bush Institute

• Russia’s Attack on Ukraine is Part of a Larger Wave of Authoritarianism

  Essay by Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, the Kelly and David Pfeil Fellow at the Bush Institute

• There Never Was a Threat from the West, Mr. Putin

  Essay by Michael C. Polt, former U.S. Ambassador to Estonia and to Serbia and Montenegro; Ambassador-in-Residence at Arizona State University

• Emerging Leaders on Spreading Democratic Freedoms

  Short Essays by democratic activists

What Happens Next

• The European Union Needs to Stop Sleepwalking on Energy

  Essay by Kenneth Hersh, President and CEO of the George W. Bush Presidential Center and Co-Founder and former CEO of NGP Energy Capital Management

• Friendship With Limits: Putin's War and the China-Russia Partnership

  Essay by Bobo Lo, Non-Resident Fellow at the Lowy Institute in Australia

• Latin America Belongs on the Front Line of the Fight for Freedom

  Conversation with Leopoldo Lopéz, Wilson Center Fellow and Venezuelan democracy activist

• The Rule of Law Must Triumph

  Essay by David M. Crane, Founding Chief Prosecutor of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone; Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Syracuse University College of Law