Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Alexander J. Motyl: Putin won’t stop at Crimea
People hold Ukrainian flags as they gather in front of the parliament in Kiev on March 17, 2014. Ukrainian troops will remain in Crimea, the country's defence minister said that day even as media reported the separatist peninsula planned to disband Ukrainian units there. The day before Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to join former political master Russia as tensions soared in the east of the splintered ex-Soviet nation amid the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY
Editor's note: Alexander J. Motyl is professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark. He served as associate director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University from 1992 through 1998. A specialist on Ukraine, Russia and the USSR, he is the author of six academic books and several novels, including "The Jew Who Was Ukrainian," "My Orchidia," and "Sweet Snow." Motyl writes a weekly blog on "Ukraine's Orange Blues" for World Affairs Journal.
