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Section: Center for Strategic and International Studies (USA)

      Results, Reforms, and Realpolitik: Ukraine Goes to the Polls
      Oct20

      Results, Reforms, and Realpolitik: Ukraine Goes to the Polls

      Please join us for a timely discussion on the upcoming Ukrainian national elections. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko dissolved the Rada in August and called for early elections. Against the backdrop of a ceasefire with Russia that has diminished but not ended the bloodshed; an unresolved energy dispute with Russia; slow progress on domestic...

      Russia’s War, Ukraine’s History, and the West’s Options
      Oct19

      Russia’s War, Ukraine’s History, and the West’s Options

      In Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, history was presented as justification for war. Is there any resemblance between Russian justifications and historical consensus? What does it mean when ethnic claims trump international law? And should hate propaganda be seen simply as an instrument in one war, or an element of a larger strategy to...