Language and War in Contemporary Ukraine
by Francis Scarr The author is a Research Assistant Intern at the Institute of International Relations in Prague. Since Ukraine’s declaration of independence in 1991, the country has grappled, at times clumsily, with the task of establishing consensus over the…
Lies & Provocations or Myths & Pretexts?: NATO Enlargement and the Origins of the Ukraine Crisis
by Anna Roininen In his address on 18 March 2014, in which President Putin justified the annexation of Crimea, he underlined the humiliation Russia had suffered due to a series of hostile actions and broken promises by the West, including…
Terrorists and pro-Russian militants: Depictions of the Enemy in the Ukrainian conflict
by David Rypel The text analyses a way in which Ukrainian official discourse –represented here by a spokesperson on matters related to the so-called Anti-Terrorist Operation – constructs the Enemy whom the military confronts in the east of the country….
How does Russia see the World? The debate on IMEMO Forecasts
The upcoming issue of New Perspectives will feature a forum on the second installment of the IMEMO Forecast – an analytical report on Russian foreign and security policy, geopolitics and political economy. It is already a second forum on the…
Maili Vilson: The foreign policy of the Baltic states and the Ukrainian crisis: A case of Europeanization?
Under which circumstances do countries give up bits of their national sovereignty? The best example we know so far comes from Europe: the European Union (EU) has gradually grown to play a significant part in the various policy fields of…
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