Negotiating Neutrality: Ukraine's Defense Dilemma

Lawfare Legal Fellow Mykhailo Soldatenko sits down with Eric Ciaramella, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Samuel Charap, Senior Political Scientist at Rand Corporation, to discuss the key issues in the Ukraine-Russia talks. They chat about the national interests of the interested parties, whether a negotiated settlement is possible, and what form a potential agreement may take. They also discuss credible security arrangements for Ukraine to prevent future aggression and various Russian demands, including those related to NATO and neutrality. 

You may want to look at the following pieces relevant to the discussion. 

• Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Ukraine’s New Theory of Victory Should be Strategic Neutralization
• Samuel Charap and Sergey Radchenko, The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine
• Mykhailo Soldatenko, In the Shadow of the Minsk Agreements: Lessons for a Potential Ukraine-Russia Armistice

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