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Ukrainian Voices?

Ishchenko explores the paradoxes of a politics of national-identity recognition in the absence of national-economic redistribution. What does it mean to ‘decolonize Ukraine’ in neoliberal times?

Towards the Abyss

The Ukrainian political sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko discusses the reasons for Kiev’s determined re-orientation to NATO and the European Union in the aftermath of the 2014 Maidan uprising—and the disastrous upshots of Putin’s invasion for his country.

Maidan Mythologies

Volodymyr Ishchenko on Andrew Wilson, Ukraine Crisis. The Maidan and civil war from the perspective of an EU think-tank.

Ukraine’s Fractures

Antecedents and aftershocks of the Maidan protests. A Ukrainian sociologist discusses the riven political and ideological landscape laid bare by the fall of Yanukovych, and the tensions being stoked in the country’s east by Russian interference and Kiev’s ongoing military assault.

An Avoidable War?

In the first of three texts on the war for Ukraine, an examination of the narrative dominating Western media coverage—an unprovoked Russian assault, in which NATO, a defensive alliance of democracies, has played no role?