364. Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel - Russia and Ukraine have Tangled Histories, cut Through with Trauma.

In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks
rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. President
Zelensky declined a Western evacuation offer and Ukrainians rallied to
defend their country. What are the roots of this war, which has upended
the international legal order and brought back the spectre of nuclear
escalation? How did these supposedly “brotherly peoples” become each
other’s worst nightmare?
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Maria Popova is Jean Monnet Chair and Associate Professor of Political
Science at McGill University in Montreal. She holds a BA in Spanish
Literature and Government from Dartmouth College and a PhD in Government
from Harvard University. She has lived and conducted research across
Eastern Europe and Eurasia and its various regime incarnations — to her
current attempt to disentangle real from fake anti-corruption efforts in
Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine. The ideal background to explore the
road to war that Putin has taken.

Oxana Shevel is an Associate Professor of comparative politic at
Department of Political Science at Tufts University and Director of
Tufts International Relations program. Her research and teaching focuses
on the post-Soviet region, especially Ukraine and Russia, and issues
such as nation building and identity politics, citizenship policies,
memory politics, church-state relations, and democratization process in
the post-Soviet region. She is a co-author (with Maria Popova) of a book
on the root causes of the Russo-Ukrainian war Russia and Ukraine:
Entangled Histories, Diverging States (2023).
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