West Ukraine

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, six US presidential administrations of both parties pursued policies for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia that emboldened Russia, playing into its imperialist, centuries-long mythos of regional hegemony. The result: military aggression and full-scale invasion. It was all too foreseeable. In The Folly of Realism, leading national security expert and bestselling author Alexander Vindman argues that America’s mistakes in Eastern Europe result from policymakers’ fixation on immediate, short-term problem-solving and misplaced hopes and fears.

A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir—and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation.

Der deutschen Diskussion um den Ukraine-Krieg liegt die Annahme zugrunde, dass unsere Verurteilung des russischen Angriffskriegs von der ganzen Welt geteilt wird. Diese Annahme ist jedoch unzutreffend und es ist Zeit, selbstkritisch nach den Gründen dafür zu fragen. Der russische Bruch des Gewaltverbots, der Fundamentalnorm des modernen Völkerrechts, verdient unzweifelhaft eine konsequente und nachhaltige Antwort, doch kann diese Antwort glaubwürdig vom Westen, geführt von den USA, gegeben werden?

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's "near abroad"—newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines in the wake of the global recession, the geopolitical contest that created it did not. Six years later, the specter of a revanchist Russia returned when Putin's forces invaded and annexed the Crimean peninsula. Eminent political geographer Gerard Toal moves beyond the polemical rhetoric to study the underlying territorial conflicts and geopolitical struggles.