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Haran: Now we see what kind of a strategic partner Russia can be if it invaded Crimea and brought war to Donbas

(World Politics Review) OPYTNE, Ukraine—One afternoon in January 2015, 78-year-old Maria Gorpynych stood on her porch and anxiously watched her son Victor run the short distance to the home of a…

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The Death of Arms Control; Consequences on Ukraine

This February we witnessed the true deterioration of arms control. The United States declared its withdrawal from the INF Treaty (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty) due to Russia’s alleged systematic violations…

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Ukraine’s Civil War: Would Accepting This Terminology Help Resolve the Conflict?

Since Ukraine is the site of both an invasion (Crimea) and a civil war (in the Donbas), there is no academic consensus on what to call the crisis in Ukraine.…

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Church and Geopolitics: The Battle Over Ukrainian Autocephaly

(PONARS Policy Memo) The solemn presentation by Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople of the so-called tomos, or a decree of autocephaly, for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to newly elected Ukrainian primate Metropolitan Epiphanius in…

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Evolving Dynamics and Conflict Potential in Eastern Ukraine

(PONARS Policy Memo) How can institutions in Ukraine be strengthened in their effectiveness and legitimacy in order to mitigate conflict escalation and impel peace? How can the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk…

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Ukraine on the Brink | An Interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko

(Jacobinmag) When the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, its former republics’ economies went into free fall. Ukraine — the most populous of the new states, after Russia — was…

How the Trump Administration’s Contradictory Policies Impact Ukraine

(PONARS Policy Memo) There was widespread anticipation of profound changes in relations between the United States and Ukraine in light of the 2016 U.S. presidential election results. As a candidate,…

Whose Cossacks Are They Anyway? A Movement Torn by the Ukraine-Russia Divide

(PONARS Policy Memo) Most headlines about the conflict in Eastern Ukraine do not normally mention either the role of the Cossacks or the use of the Cossack image, but both are,…

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Attacks on Healthcare Infrastructure in the Donbas: Implications for Ukrainian State Legitimacy

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Since the armed conflict in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine began in early 2014, over 10,000 lives have been lost and nearly two million persons…

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Strategic Analysis December 2018: The Kerch Strait skirmish: a Law of the Sea perspective

(Hybrid Co) “The November 25 naval skirmish between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the Kerch Strait highlighted the fraught legal status of the strait and the Azov Sea, a status that…

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Haran: Now we see what kind of a strategic partner Russia can be if it invaded Crimea and brought war to Donbas

The Death of Arms Control; Consequences on Ukraine

Ukraine’s Civil War: Would Accepting This Terminology Help Resolve the Conflict?

Church and Geopolitics: The Battle Over Ukrainian Autocephaly

Evolving Dynamics and Conflict Potential in Eastern Ukraine

Ukraine on the Brink | An Interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko

How the Trump Administration’s Contradictory Policies Impact Ukraine

Whose Cossacks Are They Anyway? A Movement Torn by the Ukraine-Russia Divide

Attacks on Healthcare Infrastructure in the Donbas: Implications for Ukrainian State Legitimacy

Strategic Analysis December 2018: The Kerch Strait skirmish: a Law of the Sea perspective