Neil Munro (Aberdeen): Which Way Does Ukraine Face? Popular Orientations Toward Russia and Western Europe. From the Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Robert Nalbandov ( St. Andrews): Battle of Two Logics: Appropriateness and Consequentiality in Russian Interventions in Georgia; Mykola Kapitonenko (Kyiv): Resolving Post-Soviet “Frozen Conflicts”: Is Regional Integration Helpful?; and Vladimer Papava (GFSIS): The End of the Frozen Cold War? Decisions, decisions: What people can learn from how social animals make collective decisions. From Foreign Policy, the axis of upheaval: A special report on the coming age of instability; and the long legs of the crash: Daniel Drezner on 13 unexpected consequences of the financial crisis. A review of Talk Dirty Yiddish by Ilene Schneider. The Carney Consequence: A poor Oscar choice for Best Actor in 1974 set in motion a ripple effect of makeup awards by the Academy that is still being felt today. If the debate over climate change is closed, why is John Coleman, the founder of the Weather Channel, still trying to prove it’s all a scam? From LRB, Perry Anderson reviews books on Italian politics. Known as the "Tome Raider", he also goes by the aliases Mr Santoro or David Fletcher; a notorious gentleman thief in the rarefied world of antiquarian books, he has slipped through the hands of the police, is wanted and at large.
