Prof. Hilary Appel, director of CMC’s Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, and Prof. Jennifer Taw wrote a piece titled “Will Russia’s Anti-NATO Gambit Succeed?” for Bangladesh’s The Daily Star. “On the surface, Putin seems to have unnecessarily boxed himself in by making unacceptable demands on an issue—Ukraine's NATO accession—that was unlikely to materialize anyway. But Putin has, in fact, made real gains by exposing the West's disarray and the weakness of its commitment to Ukraine.”