Articles by Alexander J.

Alexander J. Motyl: Trivializing genocide – a dangerous distraction

Alexander J. Motyl: Why peace is impossible with Putin

Alexander J. Motyl: Let it go

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Alexander J. Motyl: Kremlin tightens grip on devastated Donbas

Alexander J. Motyl: National memory in Ukraine

Alexander J. Motyl: Sloppy thinking about war helps no one

Alexander J. Motyl: 25 years of Ukraine’s independence

Alexander J. Motyl: Karaganov shows pathology of Putin’s realism

Alexander J. Motyl: Ukraine is winning on the linguistic battle front

Alexander J. Motyl: Here’s why more Ukrainians admire nationalists, and why the West …

Alexander J. Motyl: Culture and corruption in Ukraine (INTERVIEW)

Alexander J. Motyl: War and energy in Ukraine

Alexander J. Motyl: The dangerous perspective of Theo Sommer

Alexander J. Motyl: Germany’s socialists, Russia’s fascism, and Ukrainian deaths

Alexander J. Motyl: Though progress is genuine, reform must accelerate in Ukraine …

Alexander J. Motyl: When downsizing is a good thing for a state

Alexander J. Motyl: Ukraine’s united future depends on leaving Donbas in its divided past

Alexander J. Motyl: A Donbas strategy going forward (Interview)

Alexander J. Motyl: Answering the critics – Donbas disengagement

Alexander J. Motyl: Dying for the Donbas?

Alexander J. Motyl: Why slow and steady wins the race; a case for patience in post-Maidan …

Alexander J. Motyl: Putin celebrates unrepentant fascist Zhirinovsky

Alexander J. Motyl: Ukraine’s new Cabinet

Alexander J. Motyl: Ukraine – a bridge linking the West and Russia?

Alexander J. Motyl: The Dutch, Kyiv and reform

Alexander J. Motyl: Is Ukraine’s economic potential its destiny?

Alexander J. Motyl: Ukrainian identity after the EuroMaidan

Alexander J. Motyl: Sick of the Ukraine crisis? Then arm Ukraine

Alexander J. Motyl: Time for Ukraine to take the initiative

Alexander J. Motyl: Putin’s Syria gambit

Alexander J. Motyl: Decentralizing government power is key to reforming Ukraine

Alexander J. Motyl: Two cheers for Cold War!

Alexander J. Motyl: Managing Kyiv’s government crisis

Alexander J. Motyl: Why reintegrating the Donbas is suicide for Ukraine

Alexander J. Motyl: Kissinger’s vapid vision thing

Alexander J. Motyl: Stalin’s partisans in Ukraine

Alexander J. Motyl: Lights out for the Putin regime

Alexander J. Motyl: Ukraine expands trade routes, bypasses Russia

Alexander J. Motyl: The winners and losers of ‘nation-branding’

Alexander J. Motyl: Should Ukraine forget its history?

Alexander J. Motyl: Russian expansionism, compatriots, and energy transformation

Alexander J. Motyl: Putin vs. ISIS Which threatens the West more?

Alexander J. Motyl: Interpreting Gorbachev’s very mixed signals

Alexander J. Motyl: When Ukraine lost Donetsk

Alexander J. Motyl: A Frenchman comes to Ukraine

Alexander J. Motyl: Slowly but surely Kyiv comes around

Alexander J. Motyl: Promising structural change begins to show in Ukraine

Alexander J. Motyl: Morality, pragmatism and Orwell in rhetoric and policy

Alexander J. Motyl: Peace in Ukraine depends on Putin’s whim

Alexander J. Motyl: Why the realists were wrong about the war in Ukraine

Alexander J. Motyl: A cautionary note – reintegrating the Donbas

Alexander J. Motyl: Putin’s misguided move in Syria

Alexander J. Motyl: Ukrainians impatient with pace of reforms

Alexander J. Motyl: Ukraine’s complicated history

Alexander J. Motyl: Back in the USSR

Alexander J. Motyl: Anti-Donbas sentiment growing in Ukraine

Alexander J. Motyl: Putin destroys tons of food imports. What’s next?

Alexander J. Motyl: Ukraine’s August blues

Alexander J. Motyl: De-communization, Hannah Arendt, and Ukrainian nationalism

Alexander J. Motyl: Two mass graves – Ukrainians and Jews

Alexander J. Motyl: Here’s why more Ukrainians admire nationalists

Alexander J. Motyl: What new Ukrainian exceptionalism?

Alexander J. Motyl: Ukraine’s bumpy road to normalcy