The West’s Three Major Miscalculations in Putin’s War on Ukraine
The West/NATO’s basic misunderstandings of game theory and Putin’s reasoning could quite easily cost us the stability of the world for the next 30 years.
Publications
Explainer: Why We Need a No-Fly Zone over Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s military forces have been making increasingly indiscriminate attacks. Entire cities are left in ruins, some without electricity and running water…
Three Russian myths that you should abandon right away
Russia is destroying Ukraine and wants to destroy the free world. Russia seems strong only because the collective West chose to be weak. For 80
A shift in strategy
As early as October 2021, the contours of Russian invasion of Ukraine were increasingly clear. The governments of the US, UK and a few other
George Breslauer and Yuriy Gorodnichenko on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
UC Berkeley’s George Breslauer, Professor Emeritus and USSR, post-Soviet Russia and Putin scholar, and Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Berkeley Quantedge Presidential Professor of Economics, joined OLLI @Berkeley
Will the free world defend my native Ukraine from authoritarian aggression?
As a native of Ukraine, I often struggle to explain to my American friends how events in Ukraine unfold, how my friends and family in
If Ukraine falls, the world becomes more dangerous
Ukraine has been in the headlines since the Revolution of Dignity in 2014 and the public may be understandably tired of hearing more about Ukraine.
Postwar reconstruction assistance and local governments in Ukraine
The Russian invasion has caused vast destruction in Ukraine, and postwar reconstruction will be expensive. The victory of freedom in Ukraine should offer an example
