Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Alexander Motyl: Misreading the war in Ukraine
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk (L) give a joint press conference after their meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin on Jan. 8.
Most general readers following events in Ukraine may not be aware that much of the debate and many of the policy prescriptions among "experts" have been dominated by a school of thought in international relations scholarship known as "realism."
