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Ukraine Statement of Support by New University in Exile Consortium

March 7, 2022 • by Social Research

In Support of Ukraine As the completely unprovoked horrific war rages on in Ukraine wreaking more and more devastation, The New University in Exile Consortium based at the New School urges you to sign our statement strongly condemning the Russian invasion, standing in solidarity with the Ukrainian people, and ready to ...

Ukraine Statement of Support by New University in Exile Consortium

Europe & Central Asia

Skip Putin. Talk to Russians

An appeal from Russian civil society

March 7, 2022 • by Anonymous

The Russian army under Vladimir Putin’s command is waging a brutal war against independent Ukraine. The Ukrainian army’s resistance is brave and strong. The worldwide support for the Ukrainian cause is unprecedented. But there’s one more thing to do. Skip Putin. Talk to Russians. Russians are still hesitant about protesting against this malicious ...

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Performances of Democracy

An excerpt from Jessica Pisano’s Staging Democracy

March 6, 2022 • by Jessica Pisano

This book is about performances of democratic politics in Russia and Ukraine: why people take part in such performances, how they are related to economic change, and how they affect the meanings that attach to political participation. ...

Europe & Central Asia

A Letter to the Western Left From Kyiv

Critique of liberal internationalism cannot add up to support for the ‘spheres of interest’ doctrine

March 4, 2022 • by Taras Bilous

A large part of the western Left, focused on NATO and the USA, failed to see Russian aggression. Of course, the war on terror needs to be brought into the discussion – but critique of liberal internationalism cannot add up to support for the ‘spheres of interest’ doctrine....

Europe & Central Asia

The Russian Resistance to Putin Has Just Begun

“I stand for peace in Ukraine and freedom in Russia. If I get arrested—well, let it be.”

March 1, 2022 • by Anastasia Shteinert

Since President Putin launched the war on Ukraine on February 24, thousands of people in more than 65 Russian cities have taken to the streets for anti-war protests. ...

The Russian Resistance to Putin Has Just Begun

Europe & Central Asia

Not about NATO

To frame NATO as a security threat to Russia caters to Kremlin propaganda

February 23, 2022 • by Mariia Shynkarenko

On Monday 21 Feb, on the eighth anniversary of the victory of the Euromaidan, Russian president Vladimir Putin effectively declared war on Ukraine. To justify this recklessness, he gave an hour-long pseudo-historical rant that portrayed Ukraine as an artificial state that owes its existence to Russia. He also accused the ...

Europe & Central Asia

Preparing for an Apocalypse

A manual from Ukraine

February 23, 2022 • by Angelina Kariakina

It’s important we develop a plan to give people a genuine feeling of agency—a feeling which, by the way, is exactly what Ukraine as a state needs while the rest of the world discusses its fate....

North America

The Future of the GOP

Has the Republic National Committee firmly dragged the Republican Party into Trump’s war on our democracy?

February 8, 2022 • by Heather Cox Richardson

Coming as the statement did, just after former President Trump said that Pence had the power to “overturn the election” and, that if reelected, Trump would pardon those who attacked the Capitol, it has put the Republican Party openly on the side of overturning our democracy....

Europe & Central Asia

What’s at Stake in Ukraine

“If you want peace, prepare for war”

February 2, 2022 • by Mariia Shynkarenko

Thus, the potential occupation of Ukraine should not be seen as a local affair, nor should the country be viewed as a strategic sacrifice to appease Putin’s fears about NATO. Instead, it should be seen as a warning of how far he can push his might, if not properly restrained. ...

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How the Republic Of Letters Was Killed In Turkey

Democracies are not just dying in the world; they are being killed deliberately in order to contain resistance and lengthen the life span of corrupt regimes

January 31, 2022 • by Ayşe Kadıoğlu

On a mellow Oxford evening in 2005, my colleague from Nuffield College wanted to show me some Oxford architectural gems after a concert at the Sheldonian Theatre. We walked towards the entrance to the Proscholium of the Bodleian Library in the Schools Quadrangle, where I saw for the first time ...

How the Republic Of Letters Was Killed In Turkey

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The Phantom of the “Greatest Generation”

“Citizen soldiers” of America, unite!

January 26, 2022 • by Mitchell Abidor

With the greatest generation serving as their antithesis, it has become de rigueur to mock and attack the baby boomers: spoiled children of fathers infinitely better than they. But whatever the errors and failings of the post-war generation, it rose up against war and racism and stifling rules, all of ...

The Phantom of the “Greatest Generation”

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In Voting, Demographics Is Often Destiny

Sex, race, religion, and party polarization

January 21, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

In voting, demographics is often destiny. In particular sex, race and religion are primary sources of partisan conflict. Race and religion are long standing themes. Sex, more specifically the role of women and how it affects relationships between the sexes, manifested itself less directly until late in the twentieth century....