Preventing accidental war: Guardrails among superpowers can help
The immediate aim of U.S. President Joe Biden’s video summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Tuesday was clear: to deter him from using the military force he is amassing on the border with Ukraine to invade that formerly Soviet, now pro-Western, state.
It was also part of a broader effort to address a more fundamental, long-term challenge.
The goal: to rebuild a framework of diplomatic stability around great power rivalries, the kind of mutually
