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The Time Is Right for Ukraine to Revisit the Lessons of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh that began in late September 2020 and lasted 44 days generated extensive analyses among journalists, academics, politicians, and…

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Haran: It is very important for Putin to say that a ceasefire is between Ukraine and pro-Russian proxies, rather than Ukraine and Russia

(dif.org.ua) I would like to share my thoughts on the ceasefire that was introduced one more time in the Donbas. Definitely, it is good to have a ceasefire. We don’t know…

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Under the Cover of COVID-19: Reverse Irredentism Rising in East Ukraine’s “People’s Republics”

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) With the spread of COVID-19 to Europe, policy patterns in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DNR/LNR) indicate that these “separatist entities,” which Moscow engineered in 2014…

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The Normandy Summit on Ukraine: No Winners, No Losers, To Be Continued

(FIIA) The French-German-Russian-Ukrainian top-level encounter could not and did not deliver a prospect of resolving the conflict in Donbas, but the limits of the possible are now clearer. No certainty,…

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Connecting Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Eastern Ukraine

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) How can international human rights protection mechanisms be employed in the gray zone of armed conflict in weak states? This question is particularly relevant for the war…

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Ukraine’s Counterintuitive Democratic Stoicism: Supporting Democracy-Building in a War-Torn State

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Numerous academic studies have shown that economic hardship, ethnoregional divides, corrupt governance, and war are bad for democracy, particularly in states where democracy has weak historical roots.…

How the Trump Administration’s Contradictory Policies Impact Ukraine

(PONARS Policy Memo) There was widespread anticipation of profound changes in relations between the United States and Ukraine in light of the 2016 U.S. presidential election results. As a candidate,…

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Attacks on Healthcare Infrastructure in the Donbas: Implications for Ukrainian State Legitimacy

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Since the armed conflict in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine began in early 2014, over 10,000 lives have been lost and nearly two million persons…

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Warfare in a Post-Truth World: Lessons from Ukraine

(PONARS Policy Memo) The U.S. intelligence community’s January 6 report about Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election highlighted the role of Russian media organizations in spreading fake news and…

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Russian Society and the Conflict in Ukraine: Masses, Elites and National Identity

(E-Int'l Relations) This chapter looks at how Russian society reacted to the conflict in and with Ukraine. The active phase of the conflict began in March 2014 with the annexation of…

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Russian Society and the Conflict in Ukraine: Masses, Elites and National Identity