War in Ukraine: Update from Kyiv

121. ANALYSIS: Bastian Brinkmann on Germany, weapon supplies to Ukraine, and Russia’s invasion

Bastian Brinkmann, journalist and Deputy Head of the Economics Department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) discusses drivers in the Germany domestic political context behind Germany's pattern of deliberation and hesitation in making each new decision regarding supplying weapons to Ukraine, German constituency in favor of supplying all necessary weapons to Ukraine, legacy of Angela Merkel's 16-year tenure as Chancellor, and economic lessons for Germany from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  
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120. ANALYSIS: Lucan Way on Revolution and Dictatorship: durablility of the Soviety Union, legacies for Putn’s regime, & trajectory of the war in Ukraine

Lucan Way, Profesor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, discusses his recent book (with Steven Levitsky) Revolution and Dictatorship: The violent origins of durable authoritarianism - implications of violent social revolution for the character of the Soviet Union, legacies for Putin's regime, the distinct trajectories of Russia and Ukraine & Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way: Revolution and Dictatorship: The violent origins of durable authoritarianism
Lucan Way: Pluralism by Default: Weak autocrats and the rise of competitive politics
Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way: Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid regimes after the Cold War
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119. ANALYSIS: Keir Giles on Russia’s War on Everybody and the war in Ukraine

Keir Giles, Senior Consulting Fellow at the Chatham House Russia and Eurasia program as well as Director of the Conflict Studies Research Centre discusses his latest book Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You, how the Russian regime wages aggressive campaigns, cyber interference, disinformation, and the war in Ukraine.   
"It’s that grey area between the state and commercial businesses and organised crime and the intelligence agencies, all of which work very closely together in Russia for projecting these effects abroad"
"Putin has not created this idea that Russia is pursuing... he is just enacting it" 
Keir Giles: Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You
Keir Giles: Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West
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118. UPDATE: Maksym Yali forecasts trajectory of Russia’s war in Ukraine in 2023

Maksym Yali, Head of the Center for New World Order and Professor of International Relations at the National Aviation University in Kyiv, forecasts how Russia's war in Ukraine will evolve in 2023 including conflict escalation, Ukrainian military successes and expected timeline of events given up-coming Presidential elections in Russia, Ukraine and the United States in 2024. 
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117. UPDATE: Maksym Yali on attacks on Kyiv & Putin’s ’ceasefire’ declaration

Maksym Yali, Head of the Center for New World Order and Professor of International Relations at the National Aviation University in Kyiv, updates on the mood in Kyiv following attacks during the festive season and Putin's recent unilateral ceasefire declaration. 
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116. ANALYSIS: Greta Uehling on ’Everyday War’ in Ukraine - how Russia’s war in Ukraine has impacted civilian lives since 2014

Greta Uehling, Lecturer in International and Comparative Studies at the University of Michigan, discusses her forthcoming book Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine: how the war in Ukraine has been impacting citizens' lives since 2014, responses to the war, and why interpersonal relationships matter for the experience and trajectory of war. 
Greta Uehling on Instagram: @greta.uehling
Greta Uehling on twitter: @uehlingumiched1
Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine can be pre-ordered with a 30% discount from Cornell University Press with discount code - 09BCARD - and will start shipping mid-January. 
 
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115. ANALYSIS: James Rodgers on Russia’s media environment: foreign reporting from Moscow, changes from the 1990s to today, and the sharp turn since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

James Rodgers is a journalist and author and a Reader in International Journalism at City, University of Moscow, discusses his book Assignment Moscow, working as a foreign correspondent in Moscow in the 1990s and in the 2000s under Putin's regime, the way in which the media environment has changed since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 
Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin 
More about James Rodgers and his work: jamesrodgersauthor.com
James Rodgers on twitter: @jmacrodgers
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114. ANALYSIS: Paul Goode on Russian nationalism and the war in Ukraine

Prof. Paul Goode, McMillan Chair in Russian Studies and Associate Professor at Carleton University discusses top-down nationalism under Putin's regime, impacts of everyday nationalism in Russia, whether nationalism is a key driver of the Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and trajectory of the war. 
"We should continue keeping a close eye on Belarus, on Moldova, on the Caucasus... there is a fundamental shift in the post-Cold War order that's happening now as a direct result of this war..."
Paul Goode - more about the Russian Media Observation and Research (RuMOR) project 
Paul Goode on Patriotism without Patriots? Perm΄-36 and Patriotic Legitimation in Russia
Paul Goode on The Nation in Post-Soviet Russia 
Paul Goode on Russia and "Love for the Motherland" 
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113. UPDATE: Maksym Yali on life in Kyiv after infrastructure attacks, Ukrainian resilience and resolve & what to expect on the battlefront over the winter

Maksym Yali, Professor of International Relations at the National Aviation University in Kyiv, discusses life in Kyiv following infrastructure attacks across Ukraine that have caused electricity and water shortages as well as Ukrainian resolve, and comments on what we can expect on the battlefront over the winter - and when we might see a further Ukrainian counteroffensive. 
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112. ANALYSIS: Alexander Lanoszka on military alliances, NATO’s response to war in Ukraine, and how the Ukraine war will shape military alliances in the twenty-first century

Alexander Lanoszka, Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Waterloo, discusses Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century including the purpose of alliances, NATO's response to the war in Ukraine, and how the Ukraine war is likely to shape military alliances in coming decades.  
Alexander Lanoszka on Military Alliances in the Twenty First Century 
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