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What Does the Ukraine Crisis Tell Us About Economic Interdependence?
Posted on April 24, 2014One of the most fervently debated topics in International Relations is over whether or not economic interdependence decreases the likelihood of war. Intuitively, it seems obvious that two countries whose ... -
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Sanctions against Russia: Is financial prosperity more important than our values?
Posted on March 26, 2014The resemblance to 1914 and 1938 are evident. Russia, like Germany in 1914, feels encircled by potential adversaries. Moreover, Moscow is determined to protect ethnic Russians and Russian speakers outside ... -
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Ukraine: Putin’s postmodern moment and the politics of truth
Posted on March 11, 2014“Two and two makes five,” wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky in his Notes from the Underground. Increasingly disillusioned in the 1860’s with western philosophy’s narratives of truth and progress, for Dostoevsky these ... -
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Obama’s Foreign Policy and Ukraine: Decoupling Security and Democracy
Posted on March 5, 2014“I don’t really even need George Kennan right now,” commented Barack Obama in a recent interview concerning his foreign policy strategy. The admission was a curious one. Not only because Kennan ... -
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When History Thickens: Ukraine and why its Revolution is in Danger
Posted on February 24, 2014Historical change is a curious phenomenon. Sometimes it occurs at a snail’s pace with years, decades elapsing before a crumbling autocracy finally gives way to a nascent democracy. Ask the people ...