Opinion – The European Union’s Status in the Russia-Ukraine Crisis
The centrality of the bloc in European security has been questioned by its absence from any meaningful dialogue on the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
The Historicization of International Relations: Evolving a Museology of War and Peace
Global history’s dark heritage can be lightened by telling the shared history of peacemaking, rather than focusing on war.
Reimagining Environment in International Relations
The very conditions of existence need to be problematized to make way for alternative possibilities of theorizing and understanding environment and ecology.
Memory Politics in Dnipropetrovsk, 1991–2015
The roots of the change in electoral sentiment is found in the de-Sovietising of identity and the promotion of pro-Ukrainian memory politics which has taken place since 1991.
The Outpost of Ukraine: The Role of Dnipro in the War in the Donbas
The outpost metaphor became a principle for a range of civic activity to inspire the city to turn towards a brighter European future, away from its Soviet past.
The Revival of the Dnipropetrovsk and Dnipro Jewish Community in Ukraine
Jews no longer must hide their nationality or religious preferences as they did in the USSR and have the tools, institutions, and resources to continue to preserve and develop their identity.
‘Eastern Ukraine’ is No More: War and Identity in Post-Euromaidan Dnipropetrovsk
The Kremlin never expected pushback from Southern-Eastern Ukraine’s Russian speakers and Jewish community because it never understood the internal dynamics of Ukraine.
Alienation and Marxism: An Alternative Starting Point for Critical IR Theory
When discussing anxiety as the constitutive feature of society, we should be talking about something social and historical, rather than transhistorical and ontological, for a politically relevant approach.
New Book – Ukraine’s Outpost: Dnipropetrovsk and the Russian-Ukrainian War
This book challenges disinformation and stereotypes of Ukraine which portray it as a regionally divided country with the military conflict as a ‘civil war’ between Russian and Ukrainian speakers.
Opinion – Escalating Conflict Endangers Prospects of Peace in Yemen
The scenario in Yemen in the midst of recent violence only draws more attention to the layers of complexity that have to be unfolded in order to resolve the conflict.
