Editor’s note: Don’t miss our comprehensive guide to Russia’s war against Ukraine.   After four weeks of heavy fighting, there is a growing consensus that neither the forced submission of Ukraine nor the forced withdrawal of Russia from Ukrainian territory are likely to be possible. Alongside the threat of an escalation to a NATO-Russian conventional or nuclear conflict, this has added to the incentives for negotiations. Negotiations to end this war, however, are not only a matter for the Russian and Ukrainian negotiators at Antalya, the Pripyat River, and elsewhere. External parties were part of the war’s structural and proximate causes. The … Continue reading The Work to Come: Russia, Ukraine, and the West at the Negotiating Table