"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.

"Over the last seventy-five years, the endlessly shifting coalitions on the chessboard of Arab regional politics seem to have played by the same rules of the game. Yet, as private interests have become a major source of political power, there have been major changes in the powers and purposes of the players," the former SIPA dean Lisa Anderson writes.

The tenth annual World Happiness Report was released on March 18, co-edited by Jeffrey Sachs: State of the Planet

Erica Lonergan of the Saltzman Institute has a piece in the Council on Foreign Relation's Net Politics and Digital Cyberspace Policy Program on the implications of Ukraine’s use of cyber proxies for norms development.