What the Ukraine Crisis reveals about the West. A talk by Volodymyr Dubovyk
Date and time:
Tuesday 19 January, 2016
18:00 - 19:00
Location:
Floor 26, Millbank Tower
21-24 Millbank
London
SW1P 4QP
The crisis in Ukraine, beginning in late 2013, brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War, or so many suggested at the time. As Russia annexed Crimea and invaded Ukraine’s eastern regions, the EU and U.S. imposed unprecedented sanctions against Moscow as relations between Russia and the West fell to an all-time low. Russia’s actions have been understood as an attempt to unravel the international order and as revealing the Kremlin’s return to something akin to an aggressive anti-Western authoritarianism. But what did the Ukraine crisis reveal about the West? Where does the crisis leave European Union and NATO eastward expansion? Did the crisis mark the start of a new period of international order? And, two years since the crisis began, does Ukraine still matter to the West?
This event will be held in English.
FREE
Speaker
Volodymyr Dubovyk
Volodymyr Dubovyk received his Ph.D. from Odessa State University in 1996 and has remained with the same institution (now Odessa Mechnikov National University) in various positions to the present day. He has been an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations since 1996 and Director of the Center for International Studies since 1999. Dubovyk has held fellowships at the Kennan Institute, the Wilson Center, and the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland, and a visiting scholar at the University of Washington. He participates in PONARS Eurasia (New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia) project, based at George Washington University.
