19 Jul 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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This is a guest post by Milos Popovic, a PhD student at the International Relations and European Studies Department at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. A recent post by a Russian-backed separatist leader Igor Girkin claiming credit for shooting down … Continue reading
26 May 2014
by R. William Ayres
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Inigo Montoya famously said, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Journalists seem especially prone to the Inigo Montoya problem, especially when it comes to basic ideas in international relations. David Sanger … Continue reading
12 May 2014
by R. William Ayres
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The conflict in Eastern Ukraine and Russia’s actions in Crimea continue to dominate headlines and capture international attention. It’s been a while since we’ve seen irredentism as a relevant concept, but hostile boundary-shifting has again become de rigueur. This has shocked … Continue reading
2 May 2014
by R. William Ayres
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I’ve read several interesting and insightful things about Eastern Ukraine recently. The first was posted a while back by Will Moore, who asked “Is Crimea’s Ethnic Conflict Banal?” Picking up on work by John Mueller on Bosnia back in the 1990s Moore … Continue reading
19 Mar 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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This is a guest post by Zachary Selden, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida and former Deputy Secretary General for Policy at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. There is a lot of commentary out there on Ukraine right … Continue reading