"Ukraine" - PONARS Eurasia

Pawns, Partners, and “Smart Leadership”: Ukraine’s Opportunities in the China-Russia-West Triangle

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Ukraine can find advantage in geopolitical competition while reducing its sense of disempowerment. The increasingly three-sided competition for influence between China, Russia, and the West has…

View

The Political Consequences of Public Relations Miscalculations: Will Ukraine’s Anti-corruption Bureau be Terminated?

The National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine, commonly known as NABU, offers an instructive case on good governance agencies’ challenges in post-Communist Eurasia. The frontline anti-corruption organization in Ukraine was established…

View

Dubovyk: Nobody on Biden’s shortlist for Secretary of State would have been bad news for Ukraine

(Atlantic Council blog) Volodymyr Dubovyk, Associate Professor, Odesa Mechnikov National University: Nobody on President-elect Joe Biden’s shortlist for Secretary of State would have been bad news for Ukraine, including Susan Rice, who wasn’t…

View

Fisun: After the local elections of 2020, twenty-five regional political regimes have emerged in Ukraine

(OpenDemocracy) On 25 October, Ukraine held local elections across the country, heralding the final stage of a much-lauded decentralisation of administrative power – and a serious loss for president Zelenskyi’s Servant…

View

Haran: More than just an onlooker, Ukraine largely relieved at US election result

(Dif.org) Oleksiy Haran, a professor of political science at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and research director at the Democratic Initiatives think tank, suggested that the contrast between the president’s apparent attitudes and…

View

Aspirational Identity Politics and Support for Radical Reform: The Case of Post-Maidan Ukraine

(Comparative Politics) Abstract: How does ethnicity influence mass support for radical reforms? Treating ethnicity as a set of cognitively useful categories serving both ethnocentric and inclusive ends, we argue people can…

View

Friday, October 2: Challenges Facing Ukraine in Domestic and International Politics

Challenges Facing Ukraine in Domestic and International Politics Presented as a part of PONARS Eurasia Fridays, an online event series featuring expert discussions on current events in Eurasia each week.…

View

Haran: It is very important for Putin to say that a ceasefire is between Ukraine and pro-Russian proxies, rather than Ukraine and Russia

(dif.org.ua) I would like to share my thoughts on the ceasefire that was introduced one more time in the Donbas. Definitely, it is good to have a ceasefire. We don’t know…

View

Ukraine’s healthcare system is in critical condition again

(Atlantic Council) On July 23, Ukraine’s Constitutional Court will hear arguments challenging the landmark 2017 legislation that overhauled the country’s healthcare system. It’s the latest salvo in an ongoing war pitting…

View

Under the Cover of COVID-19: Reverse Irredentism Rising in East Ukraine’s “People’s Republics”

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) With the spread of COVID-19 to Europe, policy patterns in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DNR/LNR) indicate that these “separatist entities,” which Moscow engineered in 2014…

Contacts

DIGITAL RESOURCES

Knowledge Hub

RECOMMENDED

The Impacts of Host- and Home-Country Political Environments on Russian Activists Abroad

Can Russians Learn to Recognize Propaganda? Understanding of Media Bias Amid the Ukraine War

The 2024 BRICS Summit in Kazan: Another Russian Attempt to Regain Diplomatic Status

Despite Everything: How and Why Russia Remains an Actor in the Horn of Africa

Resilience Strained: How Civil-Military Relations Are Shaping Russia’s War Effort

PONARS Eurasia Podcast

Ukraine

Pawns, Partners, and “Smart Leadership”: Ukraine’s Opportunities in the China-Russia-West Triangle

The Political Consequences of Public Relations Miscalculations: Will Ukraine’s Anti-corruption Bureau be Terminated?

Dubovyk: Nobody on Biden’s shortlist for Secretary of State would have been bad news for Ukraine

Fisun: After the local elections of 2020, twenty-five regional political regimes have emerged in Ukraine

Haran: More than just an onlooker, Ukraine largely relieved at US election result

Aspirational Identity Politics and Support for Radical Reform: The Case of Post-Maidan Ukraine

Friday, October 2: Challenges Facing Ukraine in Domestic and International Politics

Haran: It is very important for Putin to say that a ceasefire is between Ukraine and pro-Russian proxies, rather than Ukraine and Russia

Ukraine’s healthcare system is in critical condition again

Under the Cover of COVID-19: Reverse Irredentism Rising in East Ukraine’s “People’s Republics”