Quenching Fire with Gasoline: Why Flawed Terminology Will Not Help to Resolve the Ukraine Crisis

A reaction to Jesse Driscoll’s PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo: “Ukraine’s Civil War: Would Accepting This Terminology Help Resolve the Conflict?” by Ivan Gomza. Since late 2013, Ukraine’s contentious political environment has…

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Ukraine’s “Type 4” Conflict: Why Is It Important To Study Terminology Before Changing It?

A reaction to Jesse Driscoll’s PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo: “Ukraine’s Civil War: Would Accepting This Terminology Help Resolve the Conflict?” In his February 2019 policy memo, Dr. Jesse Driscoll argues…

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Ukraine’s Civil War: Would Accepting This Terminology Help Resolve the Conflict?

Since Ukraine is the site of both an invasion (Crimea) and a civil war (in the Donbas), there is no academic consensus on what to call the crisis in Ukraine.…

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Jesse Driscoll on domestic hierarchies in Tajikistan

(UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy) Professor Jesse Driscoll continues to look at how well-functioning domestic hierarchies emerged after relatively short periods of anarchic violence in Tajikistan. This…

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