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International Crisis Group

War and Peace is a new podcast series from the International Crisis Group ( Olga Oliker and Hugh Pope interview experts about all things Europe and its neighborhood from Russia to Turkey and...

Episodes

20 of 127 episodes

Do the Laws of War Still Matter in Ukraine and Beyond?

This week on War & Peace, Olga speaks with Yale Law School professor Oona Hathaway and Crisis Group expert Brian Finucane about internationa...

43:45Sep 8, 2026

War, Politics and Chauvinism in Russia and Across Europe

This week on War & Peace, Olga speaks with Sabine Fischer, senior fellow at SWP, about her book “The Chauvinist Threat: Russia’s War and the...

37:25Jul 30, 2026

NATO in Türkiye/Türkiye in NATO

In this episode of War & Peace , Olga is joined by Galip Dalay, senior research fellow at Chatham House, to discuss Türkiye’s evolving relat...

36:24Jun 30, 2026

Hungary – and Europe – After Orbán

In this episode of War & Peace, Olga is joined by Zsuzsanna Végh, Program Officer with the German Marshall Fund, to discuss the aftermath of...

41:16May 27, 2026

EU and NATO Members Grapple with War in Iran

In this episode of War & Peace, Olga is joined by Crisis Group’s head of EU affairs, Lisa Musiol, to take stock of how the EU and European c...

31:20Apr 14, 2026

Cold Hard Truths: Arctic Security in a Changing World

In this episode of War & Peace , Olga is joined by Gabriella Gricius, Senior Fellow at the Arctic Institute and Postdoctoral Fellow at the U...

30:10Mar 10, 2026

Bonus Episode: A Transport Route to Peace in the South Caucasus?

Today, we're bringing you a bonus episode from Crisis Group's global podcast, Hold Your Fire! In this episode of Hold Your Fire! , Richard A...

46:24Feb 27, 2026

Can Europe Solve Its U.S. Dilemma?

In this episode of War & Peace , Olga and Alissa are joined by Nathalie Tocci, director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome, to di...

42:30Jan 16, 2026

Karabakh Refugees in Armenia

In this episode of War & Peace , Olga Oliker and Alissa de Carbonnel are joined by Joshua Kucera, Crisis Group’s Senior Analyst for the Sout...

28:09Dec 16, 2025

How Ukraine’s Women Are Meeting the Challenges of War

In this episode of War & Peace , Elissa and guest host Alissa de Carbonnel are joined by Sabine Freizer Gunes, UN Women representative for U...

34:15Nov 27, 2025

A Bigger Table? The Case for More Global Diplomacy over Ukraine

In this episode of War & Peace , Olga and guest host Alissa de Carbonnel are joined by Bob Deen, Head of the Security Unit at the Clingendae...

34:17Oct 21, 2025

Elliptical Orbit? Belarusian Foreign Policy in Fraught Times

In this episode of War & Peace , Olga and Elissa speak with Valery Kavaleuski, former Belarusian diplomat and Executive Director of the Euro...

32:32Sep 23, 2025

Down, But Not Out? Russia’s Shifting Role in a Turbulent Middle East

In this episode of War & Peace , Olga Oliker speaks with Hanna Notte, Director for Eurasia at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation S...

36:18Jul 25, 2025

More Europe, Less U.S.? What to Expect from the NATO Summit

In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa speak with Dr. Pia Fuhrhop, head of the International Security Research Division at SWP, abo...

28:12Jun 20, 2025

Ukraine: The Battlefield and the Negotiating Table

In this episode of War & Peace , Olga and Elissa speak with Crisis Group’s senior Ukraine analyst, Lucian Kim, about how the war in Ukraine...

24:18May 26, 2025

The Authoritarian Playbook Explained

In this episode of War & Peace , Olga and Elissa talk with political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann to unpack how aspiring authoritarian lead...

36:40Apr 15, 2025

Latin America’s Evolving Drug Trade. Why It Matters for Europe

In this episode of War & Peace, Olga and Elissa talk with Crisis Group’s Latin America program director Renata Segura and senior Colombia an...

28:10Mar 25, 2025

Bonus Episode: Trump, France and European Security

Today, we're bringing you a bonus episode from Crisis Group's global podcast, Hold Your Fire! In this episode of Hold Your Fire!, Richard At...

46:25Mar 18, 2025

After Assad – Implications for Türkiye in Syria and Beyond

In this episode of War & Peace , Olga and Elissa speak with Berkay Mandıracı, Crisis Group’s senior Türkiye analyst, about Ankara’s evolving...

35:45Feb 27, 2025

What 2025 Could Mean for the War in Ukraine and the Ukrainian and Russian Armed Forces

In this episode of War & Peace , Olga and Elissa are joined by Michael Kofman, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment specialising in Ukrai...

36:25Jan 28, 2025