Clearing the Air: Secretary Blinken Visits Ukraine
Image license/credit Secretary Blinken’s recent visit to Ukraine stands out in a number of ways. Blinken had not been in Ukraine for exactly a year, since September 8, 2022. This…
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Explaining Ukraine’s Resilience to Russia’s Invasion: The Role of Local Governance and Decentralization Reform
Ukraine’s resilience to Russia’s war of aggression came as a surprise to politicians, experts, and the general public worldwide. Popularly labeled “invincibility,” Ukraine’s state and societal resilience made the country…
Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: Multiple Ideological Agendas, One Tactical Goal
Image credit/license Just like the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and the civil war in Syria in the 2010s, the war in Ukraine has produced an environment conducive to…
Victory Despite the Cost: What Ukrainians Think about the War, Peace, and Russia
Since the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, policymakers and analysts have discussed scenarios for ending the war. Potential compromises invariably entail territorial concessions by Ukraine. Meanwhile, multiple public…
Why the West Should Localize Anti-Corruption Efforts in Ukraine
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its partners have transferred tens of billions of dollars in military, economic, and humanitarian aid to Ukraine—with more…
The Spatiality of War and Challenges in Restoring Ukraine’s Economy
With well over a year of large-scale and highly destructive warfare already passed, Ukraine has embarked on an ambitious effort to restore and enhance its economic potential, even amid the…
Ukraine Task Force: Getting Ukraine Right: From Negotiations Trap to Victory
PONARS Eurasia has organized a Task Force of prominent academic experts based in Ukraine, Europe, and North America to generate expert-group assessments of Ukraine-related events, issues, and trends. Our goal…
Ukraine, Taiwan, and Macron’s “Strategic Autonomy”
PONARS Eurasia Commentary | In Europe, one now wonders whether President Emmanuel Macron and his “strategic autonomy” proposal caused damage to the political and military cohesion of the West on…
Ukrainians and Russians Are Not One People—But Perhaps Not for the Reasons You Think
At the Valdai conference in October 2022, President Vladimir Putin once again claimed that “Ukrainians and Russians are one people.” This preposterous claim that he has repeated on numerous occasions…
The Ukrainian Resistance Movement in the Occupied Territories
Initial studies of Ukrainian resistance to Russia’s full-scale invasion focused either on non-violent protest activity or unconventional warfare. Such one-faceted studies allow for detailed subject analysis but prevent constructing a full picture of the…