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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poland’s diplomatic offensive in Ukraine and EuropeIt manages to strike hard without straying from the politics that have defined Poland's conciliatory and unifying...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Ukraine: lessons from the Balkans nightmareOne key driver of escalation in the Balkans in the early 1990s also poses a continuing risk as the Ukraine crisis...
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Published in: HomeA warmed-up cold war
The east-west dispute over Crimea is full of tensions within as well as between each side. Its drivers include the...
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Published in: HomeEurope freezes, Eurasia pivots
Behind the crisis in Ukraine lie deeper changes that are transforming the global economic and and political order,...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy blooming at the margins: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine and TaiwanThe terrifying spectre in these countries is not of ravenous foreign capital, though there is plenty of experience...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Ukraine and Eurasia's imperial fault-lines
The current conflict has been brewing for a long time and is the result of two asymmetrical imperialisms: Russia's...
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Published in: civilResistanceChallenging annexation: in Crimea, the referendum that wasn’tThe time has come – unfortunately in the midst of another political and human crisis – for the international...
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Published in: HomeA tale of two speeches
Vladimir Putin's vision of Russia's destiny has parallels with George W Bush's of the United States in the aftermath...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poland must rediscover its anti-fascist voiceIt is imperative that Poland finds an independent voice that includes a condemnation of the far-right both at home...
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Published in: openSecurityResisting our cold war instincts
Recent events in Ukraine have led some to question if it might have benefited from a nuclear deterrent. Rather than...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From the Baltic to the Black Sea: things get out of controlWatching the exit polls on the Crimea referendum in Moscow, Iannis Carras contemplates the implications for a Europe...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The new European bipolarity
Russia and the EU are re-entering a state of bipolarity. How can the EU continue to provide peace and prosperity in...
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Published in: oDRCrime and politics in Crimea
The link between crime and politics in Crimea has been evident for some time. Now, crime boss Sergei Aksyonov – the...
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Published in: oDRCould Crimea be another Bosnia?
As Crimea prepares for its referendum on Sunday, a lesson should perhaps be learned from an earlier, Balkan carve-up.
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Published in: oDRMr Putin's mercenariesThe Kremlin claims that its every step in Crimea fully complies with international law. But does President Putin...
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Published in: oDRThe Crimean ‘Army’Several months ago the Crimean peninsula seemed to be the safest place in Ukraine, far from the confrontation...
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Published in: HomeCrimea's referendum: four dangers
The planned vote to transfer Crimea from Ukraine to Russia will plant the seeds of greater conflict in the peninsula.
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Published in: oDRWho’s next on Putin’s list?
Crimea is under the control of Russia’s military forces and its Moscow-backed government is voting to secede from...
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Published in: oDRUkraine is stuck in a post-Soviet conditionStalin created Ukraine as we know it today. That is why the future of the country, East and West, is stuck in its...
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Published in: oDRIs Russia outgunning Ukraine in the ‘information war’?
For both Moscow and Kyiv, TV is the key to winning the hearts and minds of Ukrainians. But who is winning the...
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