Greg Simons (Uppsala): Ukraine and the Questions of Boundaries and Nationalities. Timothy Frye (Columbia): What Do Voters in Ukraine Want? A Survey Experiment on Candidate, Language, Ethnicity and Policy Orientation. Svetlana Vladimirovna Panina-Burke and John J. A. Burke (Almaty): Eastern and Southern Ukraine’s Right to Secede and Join the Russian Federation. MiGs and monks in Crimea: Russia flexes cultural and military muscles, revealing dire need for balance of uti possidetis and internationally recognized self-determination. Annexation of Crimea divides an artist colony founded on tolerance. Timothy Garton Ash on Putin’s deadly doctrine: “Protecting” Russians in Ukraine has fatal consequences. Moscow dreamed of transforming southeastern Ukraine into a client state — but the Kremlin's plans are fraying as Kiev pushes back. The fighting in eastern Ukraine intensifies as pro-Russian rebels lose ground, raising fresh questions over the plans of Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Justin Fox on an economic explanation for Putin’s recklessness. Joshua Rovner on what Ukraine means for how we study war: The fight in Ukraine tells us a lot about what counts as "winning" and "losing" a war. Kimberly Marten on why arming Ukraine is a bad idea. A wild and crazy thought to avert a Russo-Ukrainian war: Why not propose UN peacekeepers for eastern Ukraine? How to beat down a bully: There's only one way to stop Putin's ugly new doctrine of irregular intervention — hit back even harder. Is Russia's humanitarian convoy a Trojan horse? Linda Kinstler investigates. Katie Zavadski on how Russia is inching closer to war in Ukraine with convoy “invasion”. Putin's “humanitarian” convoy is simply a pretext for the war the Kremlin's been planning for months. David Frum on how Russia is already invading Ukraine.
