War in Ukraine: Update from Kyiv

134. ANALYSIS: Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria on forced deportations of Ukrainian children, allegations of genocide, and implications of the ICC arrest warrant for President Putin

Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria, PhD candidate at the T.C. Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, discusses the forced deportations of Ukrainian children to Russia, atroctiy crimes, allegations of genocide and the implications of the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants for President Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova. 
Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria on Are Russian transfers of Ukrainian children to re-education and adoption facilities a form of genocide?
Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria on twitter @YBFLaw
Jessica Genauer on twitter @jessicagenauer
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133. ANALYSIS: Edward Price evaluates on-going risks, Ukraine’s financial strategy, and global economic implications of the war in Ukraine

Edward Price, former British Trade Official, Principal for Geopolitical Forecasting at Ergo Intelligence and non-resident Senior Fellow at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs, discusses Ukraine's financial strategy, on-going risks and global economic implications of the war in Ukraine. 
More about Edward Price 
Edward Price on The Man Financing Ukraine's Fight for Freedom 
Edward Price on Global Implications of the war in Ukraine
Edward Price on twitter: @ed_s_price
Jessica Genauer on twitter: @jessicagenauer
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132. ANALYSIS: Alexander Titov on Russian imperialism, and mechanisms of territorial appropriation, in light of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Alexander Titov, Lecturer in Modern European History at Queen's University Belfast, discusses imperialism in the Northeast Asian region, Russian imperialism, common mechanisms of appropriation of former imperial territories, and possible echoes of patterns of imperial territorial conquest in Russia's current full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 
Alexander Titov on Ukraine: Putin isn't mad - he's following a long-established great power playbook for conquest
Alexander Titov on National appropriation of imperial lands in Northeast Asia in forthcoming edited volume Competing Imperialisms in Northeast Asia 
Alexander Titov on twitter: @titovalexander
Jessica Genauer on twitter: @jessicagenauer
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131. UPDATE: Maksym Yali on expected Ukrainian counteroffensive - when, where and what’s at stake

Maksym Yali, Head of a Center for New World Order and Professor of International Relations at the National Aviation University in Kyiv, comments on when we are likely to see the Ukrainian counteroffensive commence, what's at stake and where it might take place.  
Maksym Yali on twitter: @maksymyali 
Jessica Genauer on twitter: @jessicagenauer
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130. ANALYSIS: Daria Isachenko on Turkey-Russia relations, Nagorno-Karabach, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and trajectory of relations in 2023

Daria Isachenko, Associate at the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), discusses Turkey's relations with Russia in light of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Turkey-Russia relations and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, war in Ukraine, Presidential elections in Turkey this year, and how relations might change this year.  
More about Daria Isachenko's work
Daria Isachenko on Turkey's Stakes in the Russia-NATO Rivalry
Daria Isachenko on Turkey-Russia Partnership in the War over Nagorno-Karabakh 
Daria Isachenko on Turkey and Russia: The Logic of Conflictual Cooperation
More about the host: Jessica Genauer 

129. ANALYSIS: Oleksa Drachewych on echoes of history in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - implications of Bolshevik revolution; use of WWII narratives & brutal historical echoes in Russia’s invasion

Oleksa Drachewych, Assistant Professor in History at Western University, discusses the echoes of history in Russia's invasion of Ukraine: implications of the Bolshevik revolution and its aftermath, the use of narrative and symbols from World War II, and the brutal echoes of history in the way in which Russia has been carrying out the current invasion of Ukraine. 
The current Russian regime "by conflating the Soviet experience [in World War II] to being Russian - they are essentially removing the Ukrainian experience from the broader narrative." 
"The Russian rhetoric that tends to dehumanise Ukrainians very much mimics a lot of the way that the Soviet Union aimed to dehumanise the Germans, Romanians and others... during the Second World War... and that... dehumanisation then turned into violence and anger against civilians".
Oleksa Drachewych on Calls for peace in Ukraine a year after Russia’s full-scale invasion are unrealistic
Oleksa Drachewych on How Russia’s fixation on the Second World War helps explain its Ukraine invasion
Oleksa Drachewych on Putin's War on Ukraine and on History 
Oleksa Drachewych on twitter:  @ODrachewych
Jessica Genauer on twitter: @jessicagenauer
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128. DEEP DIVE: Jenny Mathers on heroism, gender and war - in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Jenny Mathers, Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Aberystwyth University discusses the intersection of gender, heroism, security and war - in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine: types of heroism, different trajectories of the Ukrainian armed forces and the Russian military, and how the war might play out this year. 
Jenny Mathers on Ukraine war: attitudes to women in the military are changing as thousands serve on front lines
Jenny Mathers on Women and the War in Ukraine
Jenny Mathers on Ukraine war: why Russian soldiers’ mothers aren’t demonstrating the strong opposition they have in previous conflicts
Jenny Mathers on Ukraine war 12 months on: how Volodymyr Zelensky became the nation’s unlikely hero
Jenny Mathers on Ukraine war: what the last 12 months has meant for the ordinary Russian soldier
Jenny Mathers and Veronica Kitchen on Heroism and Global Politics 
Jenny Mathers on twitter: @jgmaber
Jessica Genauer on twitter: @jessicagenauer
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127. ANALYSIS: Luca Anceschi on Central Asia and Russia’s invasion - recalibration of relations with Moscow, role of China in the region & view of the invasion from the region

Luca Anceschi, Professor of Central and East European Studies at Glasgow University, discusses the way in which Russia's invasion of Ukraine has impacted the Central Asian region: recalibration of relations with Moscow, how the region will navigate relations with both China and Moscow, and how the invasion is being viewed from the region. 
Luca Anceschi on Russia - Central Asian Relations in the Aftermath of the Invasion of Ukraine
Luca Anceschi on Analysing Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy: Regime Neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev Era 
Luca Anceschi on Turkmenistan and the Virtual Politics of Eurasian Energy 
Luca Anceschi on twitter: @anceschitan 
Jessica Genauer on twitter: @jessicagenauer 
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126. ANALYSIS: Pavel Slunkin on Belarus’ position vis-a-vis Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Lukashenka’s relationship to Putin, and whether Belarus would participate in a direct invasion of Ukraine

Pavel Slunkin, visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, discusses Belarus' position vis-a-vis Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including what Pavel learnt from being present at the Minsk negotiations summit in February 2015, how Lukashenka's relationship with Putin has changed from Russia's territorial incursions into Ukraine in 2014 to Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, how the invasion is viewed from Belarus, and whether Lukashenka would commit Belarus to participate directly in Russia's war in Ukraine.   
More about Pavel Slunkin's work: Pavel Slunkin - European Council on Foreign Relations  
Pavel Slunkin on Why the Belarusian army cannot help Russia in Ukraine 
Pavel Slunkin on Why the Belarusian regime and its people are not one and the same
Pavel Slunkin on Why the West should keep a close eye on Lukashenka
Pavel Slunkin on twitter: @PavelSlunkin
Jessica Genauer on twitter: @jessicagenauer
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125. ANALYSIS: Benjamin Herscovitch on China and Russia - China’s position vis-a-vis Russia’s invasion, how this position might change in 2023 & shape China’s approach to Taiwan

Ben Herscovitch, Research Fellow at the School of Regulation and Global Governance, on China's position vis-a-vis Russia and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, how this position might evolve in 2023, and how lessons China is learning from Russia's invasion of Ukraine are likely to shape its approach towards Taiwan in coming years. 
Ben Herscovitch's substack: Beijing to Canberra and back 
Ben Herscovitch on twitter: @B_Herscovitch
Jessica Genauer on twitter: @jessicagenauer
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