Volodymyr Kulyk

Aspirational Identity Politics and Support for Radical Reform: The Case of Post-Maidan Ukraine

(Comparative Politics) Abstract: How does ethnicity influence mass support for radical reforms? Treating ethnicity as a set of cognitively useful categories serving both ethnocentric and inclusive ends, we argue people can…

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Western Scholarship on the “Donbas Conflict”: Naming, Framing, and Implications

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) How have academics named and framed the conflict in the Donbas and what are the implications of their studies on Western policy toward Ukraine and Russia? In…

Church and Geopolitics: The Battle Over Ukrainian Autocephaly

(PONARS Policy Memo) The solemn presentation by Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople of the so-called tomos, or a decree of autocephaly, for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to newly elected Ukrainian primate Metropolitan Epiphanius in…

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Religion, National Identity and Geopolitics: Kyiv And Moscow Clash Over the Constantinople Patriarchay’s Decision on Ukrainian Autocephaly

Volodymyr Kulyk (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) discusses the changes in ethnonational identities in Ukraine, the controversial new Ukrainian educational law, and Kyiv’s effort to obtain autocephaly. Kulyk Podcast .mp3 Episode…

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Language, Identity, and Ideology in Ukrainian Media

(East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies) Incontemporary societies, mass media are increasingly important as a means of both communication and discursive representation. Media interaction is one of the main practices where…

Ukraine’s 2017 Education Law Incites International Controversy Over Language Stipulation

(PONARS Policy Memo) The Ukrainian parliament launched a long-expected education reform policy with the adoption of a new “law on education” in September 2017. This development was welcomed by civil society and…

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Ukrainians are ready to shed the legacy of Soviet Russification

(Kyiv Post) Ever since Ukraine became an independent state in 1991, its leaders have been careful with the so-called language issue, and Western advisers have urged them to apply even more…

Память и язык: разная политика Украины по двум спорным вопросам

Среди множества вызовов, с которыми столкнулись украинские власти после победы Евромайдана, две проблемы больше всего способны разделить общество и таким образом ослабить страну в ее продолжающейся борьбе с Россией: память…

Memory and Language: Ukraine’s Divergent Policies on Two Controversial Issues

(PONARS Policy Memo) Among the many challenges faced by the Ukrainian government after the victory of the Euromaidan, two issues have the highest potential for dividing society and thus weakening the…

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National Identity in Ukraine: Impact of Euromaidan and the War

(Routledge) This essay examines the impact of the Euromaidan protests and the subsequent Russian aggression on Ukrainian national identity. It demonstrates that national identity has become more salient vis-à-vis other territorial and…

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