The Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia and the Petrach Program on Ukraine invite you to |
Ukrainian Perspectives on the Current US-Ukraine-Russia Crisis |
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Friday, February 4, 2022
11:00 am - 12:30 pm (ET)
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Western experts and journalists have been widely discussing the current tensions around Ukraine. Yet, Ukrainian voices are often missing from the conversation. This panel gives the floor to Ukrainian scholars who will offer their perspectives on the current crisis. Topics include the drivers of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, possible outcomes, structural reasons behind the tensions, and reactions of Ukrainian society to a potential war, now discussed among five distinguished speakers. |
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Please note that the ending time has been extended to 12:30pm! |
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Volodymyr Dubovyk is Associate Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for International Studies at Odessa’s Mechnikov National University. He has conducted research at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and at the Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland. Among his teaching and research interests are U.S. foreign policy, U.S.-Ukrainian relations, theory of international relations, Black Sea regional security, international conflict studies, and the foreign policy of Ukraine. |
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Sergiy Kudelia is Associate Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. His research interests include political regimes and regime change, civil war onset and dynamics, and political institutions and institutional design with a geographic focus on Ukraine. His current research project examines identities, cleavages, and patronages during the onset of the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Kudelia has written articles in leading publications including Post-Soviet Affairs, Problems of Post-Communism, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and Demokratizatsiya. He was co-author with Kiron Skinner, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and Condoleezza Rice of The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin (Michigan, 2007).
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Tetyana Malyarenko is Professor of International Security and Jean Monnet Professor of European Security at the National University Odessa Law Academy and Non-resident Fellow at the Uppsala Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Sweden. She specializes in the management of contemporary international security challenges, especially in the prevention, management, and settlement of social conflicts and state-building in deeply divided societies. She leads a number of research projects directed at conflict settlement, promoting tolerance, peace-building, and the strengthening of the rule of law through cooperation between academia, the public sector, military officers, media, and civil society in Ukraine in general and in the Donbas region in particular. Malyarenko was born in Donetsk, Ukraine. |
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Olexiy Haran is Research Director at the Democratic Initiatives Foundation and Professor of Political Science at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He spent six years as a researcher at the Institute of History at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. In 2004-06, Haran served as the Eurasia Foundation’s Regional Vice-President for Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. He is interviewed frequently and is the author of numerous publications including Constructing a Political Nation: Changes in the Attitudes of Ukrainians during the War in the Donbas (Kyiv: Stylos Publishers, 2017) and Ukraine in Europe: Questions and Answers (Kyiv: Stylos Publishers, 2009).
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Oxana Shevel is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Tufts University. Her areas of expertise are Russia, Ukraine, migration, refugees, state building, citizenship, international institutions, and democratization. Her research and teaching focus on the post-Soviet region and issues such as nation- and state-building and the influence of international institutions on democratization. Shevel is the author of Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe (Cambridge, 2011), which received the 2012 American Association of Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) book prize. Currently, she is working on a new book project that involves comparative study of the sources of citizenship policies in new post-Communist states.
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This event is on the record and open to the media. |
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PONARS Eurasia is an international network of scholars advancing new approaches to research on security, politics, economics, and society in Russia and Eurasia. The program is based at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. PONARS Eurasia is supported in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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