Responding to Russia’s Illegal Military Incursion in Ukraine

March 4, 2014

(Co-author: Rudy deLeon) Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine has been neither legal nor remotely justifiable. It has alienated Russia in the international community, and its persistence will lead to even…

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Obama Slaps Putin’s Hand in Crimea—to Little Avail

The two telephone conversations between United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 2 and February 22 marked a dramatic deterioration of relations caused by the…

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How Russian nationalism explains—and does not explain— the Crimean crisis

The series of events in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s reactions, and the escalation to the point of Russia’s armed intervention in Crimea have progressed with bewildering speed. Most confounding about the…

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After Crimea: Options for the West

Russia’s military intervention in Crimea, whatever its consequences for Ukraine itself, is first and foremost a gauntlet thrown down to the West. How the West responds will shape the future…

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Russia’s Unclear Motives in Ukraine

(Co-authored by Samuel Charap and Keith Darden) In his book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington makes the case for the utility of an…

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4 reasons why Crimea is not Abkhazia

Ukraine’s acting president, Oleksander Turchynov, has accused Russian-supported forces in Crimea of “working on scenarios which are fully analogous with Abkhazia.” The notion that the “model” of Abkhazia from the…

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Why Ukraine is still not (yet) Russia

(openDemocracy) Most observers thought that any threat to the Sochi Olympics would come from disarray to the east and the south, in the fractious Caucasus. But, as it happened, strife…

Winning the Hearts of Eastern Partnership States

Russia and the EU have been increasingly competing for the loyalty of Eastern Partnership (EaP) states or, as Russia calls them, states of the “common neighborhood.” What is the nature…

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Crimean Punishment: Why Russia Won’t Invade Ukraine

(Foreign Affairs) There has been much speculation of late about a possible Russian intervention in Ukraine. After Russia ordered large-scale military exercises on Ukraine’s border earlier this week, for example,…

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Russia Ready to Give the Falling Ukraine a Push—and Might Follow Suit

The long telephone conversation between United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the earliest hours of last Saturday was remarkable in its surrealistic detachment from the…

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Responding to Russia’s Illegal Military Incursion in Ukraine

Obama Slaps Putin’s Hand in Crimea—to Little Avail

How Russian nationalism explains—and does not explain— the Crimean crisis

After Crimea: Options for the West

Russia’s Unclear Motives in Ukraine

4 reasons why Crimea is not Abkhazia

Why Ukraine is still not (yet) Russia

Winning the Hearts of Eastern Partnership States

Crimean Punishment: Why Russia Won’t Invade Ukraine

Russia Ready to Give the Falling Ukraine a Push—and Might Follow Suit

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