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Originally published 04/16/2014
What Do You Call It When a Big Country Takes a Chunk of a Small One? Greed (And We Should Know)

The intent is a massive land grab, pure and simple.

Originally published 04/12/2014
The Folly of War: Europe 1914, Ukraine 2014

Are wars ever worth all the sufferings that flow from them like blood from dying soldiers?

Originally published 04/08/2014
Putin, Man of Mystery? Hardly.

Putin often speaks quite openly of his motives and values—and opinion polls suggest he is strongly in sync with widespread popular sentiments.

Originally published 04/04/2014
If You’re Surprised by Putin’s Move in Crimea You’ve Not Been Paying Attention

What Putin is doing is simply falling in step with a long line of Great Russian leaders.

Originally published 04/03/2014
Putin's Old Playbook

Putin's personal political agenda.

Originally published 04/01/2014
History becomes political weapon in Ukraine-Russia crisis

Russia and Ukraine are ruthlessly using history as a weapon in the battle to paint their opponents as dangerous aggressors, ripping open old wounds from World War II that may not easily heal.

Originally published 03/31/2014
Some worry about the state of Russian studies

Attention on Crimea Highlights Flux in Russia Studies.

Originally published 03/27/2014
Think Russia's Land Grab is Unique? Think Again.

Just ask Turkey.

Originally published 03/27/2014
Ready for World War III?

Remember Winston Churchill's key to Russian action: Russian national interest.

Originally published 03/25/2014
Leading Russian historian sacked for comparing Ukraine invasion to Sudetenland

Andrei Zubov was fired from his job as a history professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

Originally published 03/25/2014
A ghost of World War II history haunts Ukraine’s standoff with Russia

For Ukraine and Russia, no era or actor is more omnipresent in their crisis today than World War II and Stepan Bandera.

Originally published 03/25/2014
‘Ukraine’ or ‘The Ukraine’? It’s more controversial than you think.

"The" word has a long, controversial political and social history.

Originally published 03/25/2014
Russia's Kosovo-Crimea Analogy is Ridiculous

Russia justifies its annexation of Crimea by pointing to NATO intervention in Kosovo. But the Kosovo War came after years of international buildup, and Kosovo wasn't annexed by another country immediately afterward.

Originally published 03/24/2014
Enough With the Hitler Analogies

Our understanding of World War II has been deeply enriched by a memory boom of books and research. The same cannot be said by the Hitler analogy boom.

Originally published 03/21/2014
The Next Key Step on Ukraine

Crimea is lost. What matters now is the political integrity of the rest of the country.

Originally published 03/21/2014
Why Did Russia Give Away Crimea Sixty Years Ago?

The stated reasons in the 1954 documents do not stand up to scrutiny.

Originally published 03/20/2014
Good News From Ukraine: Everyone Still Hates Hitler

All sides in the Crimean crisis are invoking the Third Reich. Why?

Originally published 03/20/2014
Putin Didn't Seize Crimea Because Obama is "Weak"

Putin seized Crimea because of Russia's national interests -- and pundits are making fools of themselves when they argue otherwise.

Originally published 03/18/2014
If history is guide, Crimea's enthusiasm might wane

South Ossetia, wrested from Georgia by Russia in 2008, has become an economic backwater.

Originally published 03/18/2014
Drawing on history, Putin announces annexation of Crimea

Putin cited the breakup of the Soviet Union and the tenth-century baptism of Prince Vladimir, among other examples.

Originally published 03/18/2014
We Should Keep Out of Ukraine

Russia has a historic and strategic interest in Ukraine, and short of nuclear war there's nothing the United States can do to keep them out.

Originally published 03/18/2014
Crimea and the Dark Side of Self-Determination

Too often self-determination is a mere excuse for territorial acquisition. Just ask Hitler. Or Milosevic.

Originally published 03/17/2014
Why 1938 Really IS the Right Analogy for Ukraine Right Now

As Washington, London, and Berlin look on, the latest strongman devours his neighbors.

Originally published 03/16/2014
Why the West Can’t Save Ukraine

In this entire affair, there has been just one big surprise: that the U.S. and West Europe failed to see the obvious.

Originally published 03/14/2014
Flirting with Fascists

In Ukraine, the enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.

Originally published 03/12/2014
Khrushchev’s son: Giving Crimea back to Russia not an option

Sergei Khrushchev says that the decision to give Crimea to Ukraine had to do with economics and agriculture.

Originally published 03/12/2014
Why America Must Stop Comparing Ukraine To World War II

Hawkish talk by U.S. politicians and Putin-as-Hitler comparisons are turning the crisis in Crimea into a powder keg that could harm our allies in the region.

Originally published 03/12/2014
The Double Standards of Crimean Cold-War Diplomacy

Though Russia's case against the new Ukrainian government is self-serving and full of holes, the toppling of Yanukovych was not a simple story of democracy vs. tyranny.

Originally published 03/11/2014
Why Vladimir Putin Will Keep Playing Jewish Card in Ukraine Crisis

Keeping the West off balance is an end unto itself for Vladimir Putin.

Originally published 03/11/2014
Why Russia can’t afford another Cold War

Moscow has a stock market.

Originally published 03/11/2014
Putin’s Phantom Pogroms

Russia is playing games with Jewish collective memory.

Originally published 03/11/2014
Why Poland Cares So Much About Ukraine

For the first time in modern history, Poland does not face an existential threat from Russia. But that doesn't mean Poles have forgotten.

Originally published 03/11/2014
Cold War Media Tactics Fuel Ukraine Crisis

The scale of Russia's propaganda efforts over the Ukrainian crisis dwarfs even Soviet campaigns.

Originally published 03/11/2014
Why Russians Back Putin on Ukraine

Few in Russia are very supportive of revolution anymore.

Originally published 03/05/2014
Forget 1991 or World War II: The Real Historical Parallel to the Ukraine Crisis is Poland's 1863 Revolt Against the Tsar

In 1863 as well as as in 2014, the most important question facing the West is whether anything can deter use of Russian military force.

Originally published 03/05/2014
Ukraine's Toxic History of Fascism and Ethnic Cleansing

Far too many Ukrainians today have fond memories of Nazi-collaborating nationalists in World War II.

Originally published 03/04/2014
Smashing Lenin Won’t Save Ukraine

The vandalism and destruction of Lenin statues across Ukraine is only the latest attack on symbols of the old Soviet state and its Eastern European satellites.

Originally published 03/04/2014
Crimea, the Tinderbox

The United States, Russia, and Europe all have interests in forestalling a civil war in Ukraine.

Originally published 03/03/2014
The Truth About the Ukraine Crisis is That History Really Doesn't Matter That Much

Pre-1991 history, anyway. Padraic Kenney, an Eastern European historian at Indiana University, explains.

Originally published 02/27/2014
Ukraine: A Domino Falls

Another historic step in the spread of liberty.

Originally published 02/27/2014
What You Need to Know About Crimea: An Interview with Charles E. King

Georgetown University professor and Ukrainian specialist Charles King explains the history behind the crisis in Crimea.

Originally published 02/20/2014
Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine

The Ukrainian government is telling itself that its opponents are Jews and us that its opponents are Nazis.

Originally published 02/20/2014
Will Ukraine Break Apart?

In Ukraine’s two decades as an independent state, the prospect of disintegration has never looked so real.

Originally published 02/19/2014
Ukraine’s Promise of Peace Overtaken by Fresh Tragedy

Tuesday was the day that the Ukrainian parliament was supposed to begin discussions on the basic constitutional change needed.

Originally published 02/04/2014
Don’t Let Putin Grab Ukraine

If the present crisis ends with the fragmentation of the Ukrainian state, the result will be disastrous for all concerned, including Russia.

Originally published 01/23/2014
Ex-Soviet Republics Reject Full Independence

In a globalized economy, economic integration with larger unions has become essential.

Originally published 12/03/2013
Where to now, Ukraine?

Historian Stanislav Kulchytsky on the tumult in the streets of Kiev.

Originally published 10/01/2013
Ukraine’s Bumpy Road to Europe

Looking forward eagerly to Ukraine’s first step toward E.U. membership.

Originally published 09/17/2013
Andrew Bacevich on Amy Goodman's "Democracy Now!"

Bacevich discusses his new book "Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country."

Originally published 09/17/2013
Bourbon Barons to Tell Stories About Their Craft

The collection of oral histories is a joint effort by the Kentucky Distillers' Association and the University of Kentucky's Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History.

Originally published 09/17/2013
Researchers go into battle to test Bronze Age weapons

Researchers at Newcastle University bring a new meaning to LARPing.

Originally published 09/15/2013
America's Fierce Quarrel over Entry into World War II (INTERVIEW)

Historian Lynne Olson on FDR, Charles Lindbergh and the dispute over entry into World War II.

Originally published 03/19/2013
Will Wikipedia replace the academic thesis?

KYIV, Ukraine — Click on a Wikipedia topic about optometry in the Polish language or Newtonian mechanics in Ukrainian and the article that pops up may well be a college student thesis.That’s because universities in Poland and Ukraine are exploring new requirements. Instead of cribbing research from Wikipedia for papers that will probably only gather dust, advocates of the idea say students would be better off writing their own Wikipedia articles.Although critics warn that Wikipedia articles are no substitute for rigorous academic papers, supporters say more than simply putting more information at public disposal, erasing boundaries between the internet and academia will invigorate scholarship by enabling it to benefit everyone.

Originally published 02/26/2013
Crimean War cemetery uncovered

The din of machinery mingled with the echo of the 19th century Crimean War when an excavator bucket stumbled upon the yellowed remains of long-dead French soldiers at a construction site in a southern Ukrainian port city.The haunting find at Sebastopol's Cane Bay beach in December revealed the site of a large cemetery of French soldiers who died in the war against the Russian Empire during the 1854-1856 Crimean War. The discovery has highlighted how many bodies could still be lying under the ground from the brutal conflict where an alliance of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire fought against Russia in what many see as one of the world's first modern conflicts....

Originally published 03/18/2014
Crimea: Power on Display

With Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to annex Crimea, we are witnessing a grand act of political theater.By Cynthia V. Hooper

Originally published 03/18/2014
The Double Standards of Crimean Cold-War Diplomacy

The regrettable tendency of U.S. leaders to immediately view the conflict in Ukraine in outdated Cold War terms succeeded only in squeezing out all room for Realpolitik diplomacy and now has led us to a point of crisis unimaginable just weeks ago. READ MORE HERE at HNN.

Originally published 02/23/2014
The Strategic Consequences of an East-West Ukrainian Split

With freed former PM Yulia Tymoshenko rallying protesters in Kiev and President Yanukovych defiantly taking to the airwaves in Kharkov, the possibility of an East-West Ukrainian split remains dangerously high.

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