An in-depth interview on the historical and political-economic context of the Ukraine crisis with Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko.
Volodymyr Ishchenko
Tony Wood
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An in-depth interview on the historical and political-economic context of the Ukraine crisis with Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko.
Volodymyr Ishchenko
Tony Wood
Click here to subscribe to ESSF newsletters in English and/or French.
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, by RITTER Scott
Seen in retrospect, Russia’s demand for a written response was a trap, one neither the U.S. nor NATO yet recognizes, writes Scott Ritter.
Back in December, Russia sent the U.S. and NATO two draft treaty documents spelling out its demands for security guarantees related to NATO’s posture in (...)
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, by FINKEL David
The following notes are a followup to the previous post Ukraine Crisis in Imperial Context . The author claims no special political or scholarly expertise on Ukraine. I’m simply trying to pursue the logic of the situation to the two possible conclusions, negotiated settlement or (...)
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, by BORZOVOY Zak
The Russian military has massed more than 125,000 troops along the Ukrainian border, together with the heavy artillery necessary for an invasion of the country. Why have simmering tensions reached a boiling point yet again? In part, the answer relates to Ukraine’s unique position in European (...)
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, by BRODER David, SAKWA Richard
Western governments are being called on to send more weapons to Ukraine — an arms buildup that will only escalate a potentially disastrous conflict. What we really need is a comprehensive peace settlement for the region.
In recent weeks, Western media have turned to well-worn analogies from (...)
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, by TOAL Gerard
The crisis is at a critical point—our task is to keep the big picture in mind
War is in the air. As most everybody knows by now, Russia has assembled a formidable force at various locations near Ukraine’s borders. Satellite images of military equipment and amateur video of lines of tanks (...)
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, by SEYMOUR Richard
The news we depend on, while mentioning Ukraine a lot, isn’t really talking about Ukraine. Ukraine is an afterthought, one element in a geopolitical puzzle, the stake in a great power rivalry. It is discussed by secretaries of state, military and intelligence officials, and hawkish MPs. It is (...)
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, by BILOUS Taras, DUTCHAK Oksana, POTARSKA Nina
For Potarska, listening to people on both sides of the frontline in eastern Ukraine is crucial for even tiny steps towards resolution.
The war in eastern Ukraine is now in its sixth year. As the war has entered a “slower”, but no less deadly phase, attention, particularly in the west, has (...)
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, by BILOUS Taras
When the US media began writing again about the threat of a Russian invasion in Ukraine in the fall of 2021, the first reaction of many Ukrainians was surprise. Until mid-December, it seemed that Western media paid more attention to the issue and took it more seriously than their Ukrainian (...)
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, by BILOUS Taras
Acknowledging Ukraine’s legitimate security concerns while avoiding armed conflict on all sides
When the US media began writing again about the threat of a Russian invasion in Ukraine in the fall of 2021, the first reaction of many Ukrainians was surprise. Until mid-December, it seemed that (...)
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, by Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) Ukraine
The Kremlin has pulled the Russian army to the Ukrainian borders and is threatening to intervene if the US, NATO, and Ukraine do not fulfill their demands. We, the Ukrainian socialists, call on the international left to condemn the imperialist policies of the Russian government and to show (...)
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, by BILOUS Taras
When the U.S. media began writing again in the fall of 2021 about the threat of a Russian invasion in Ukraine, the first reaction of many Ukrainians was a surprise. Until mid-December, it seemed that the Western media paid more attention to the issue and took it more seriously than the (...)
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, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr
Dossier 1989 Thirty Years Later: Several profound contradictions have defined the dynamics of Ukrainian economy, politics and society since the collapse of the Soviet Union: the contradiction between transnational and local capital, those between factions of the local capital, Ukrainian (...)
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, by LA BOTZ Dan
Ukraine is at the center of a dangerous contest between the United States and Russia that could lead to a Russian invasion, to Western economic sanctions, to mutual cyber warfare, and, with two nuclear powers involved, could even detonate a nuclear war. At the heart of this is Ukraine’s plans (...)
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, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr
After weeks of media scare about a purported Russian military invasion of Ukraine, the conflict may get a chance to be solved in a negotiated way. The public conversation on the current escalation of the Russian-Western conflict over Ukraine is, however, quite ironic. At least on the surface, (...)
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, by FINKEL David
The following notes were initially intended as part of a followup to the article Biden’s Foreign Policy by Dianne Feeley .
M1A1 Main Battle Tanks during a NATO Training. Russia can’t allow NATO bases in Ukraine. (Photo: Chad McMeen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
I’d like to develop (...)
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, by PIRANI Simon
October 1917: the climax of the revolution we have always called “Russian”, but was so much more. In Petrograd, the old empire’s capital, the provisional government that had ruled since February collapsed and Bolshevik-led workers’ and soldiers’ soviets (councils) took control. In Kyiv, the (...)
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, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr
After the 30 years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine may give a unique perspective on the post-Soviet condition in general and understand it as the ongoing unresolved crisis of the fundamental relation of representation between the political elites and social groups interests. (...)
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, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr , ZHURAVLEV Oleg
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Revolutions have been plentiful in post-Soviet countries, but unlike classic revolutionary examples, they have been remarkably consistent in failing to establish a more stable political order and states autonomous from the influence of patronage. Post-revolutionary (...)
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, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr , ZHURAVLEV Oleg
Political revolutions are quite frequent in the countries of the former USSR. Ukraine has experienced three such periods of change. These provide a deficient respond to the crisis of political representation, or crisis of hegemony. That is to say, they respond to the crisis, but in ways that (...)
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