SIPA remembers groundbreaking alumna Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state.

“There’s a lot more room to ratchet up sanctions if the United States and Europe decide to do so,” Eddie Fishman comments.

"Few anticipated what happened once the war began: the Ukrainians put up a tough resistance, even as the balance of power favored Russia," Rajan Menon of the Saltzman Institute writes.

Soaring global energy and food prices caused by the war will add to economic head winds for China, unless Beijing is able to buy these products at prewar prices from Russia, according to Shang-Jin Wei.

“Putin’s invasion of Ukraine threatens a global wheat crisis,” Inbar Pe’er, Saltzman Student Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, co-writes.

In a letter to Ramaphosa, Joseph Stiglitz, alongside Jayati Ghosh and Peter Kamalingin, said they would support South Africa in turning down the compromise proposal.