Introduction

Gideon rackman, chief foreign affairs commentator of the financial times. We're now more than a month into the war in ukraine. The western world's coming to the disturbing realization that this conflict would be with us for months or even years. All sorts of new possibilities need to be considered about the place of russia in the world and the future of europe. Titting through some of these implications, i am joined by one of europe's most interesting thinkers on geo politics,. Alexander stoob, former prime minister of finland who is currently a professor at the european university institute in florence.