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When The Swedish Fish
There is something rotten in the seas of Sweden. An unidentified swimming object was confirmed mid-November, nearly a month after Swedish...
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Dec 3, 20147 min read


Divide and Conquer: Russian Foreign Policy Legacy Endures in Ukraine
Since the first Russian troops began invading Crimea, the West has considered various approaches to deter Russian aggression in Ukraine....
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Sep 21, 20144 min read


Dashed Lines and Dashed Hopes: The Downside of Google’s “Neutrality”
Google’s army of Street View cars. Photo by Jaap Meijers From charcoal lines on animal hide to complex code in a Silicon Valley server,...
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May 9, 20145 min read


Crimea’s Cousin Kosovo
Russia’s military intervention in Crimea, which recently resulted in a referendum on the secession and annexation of the Crimean...
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Apr 30, 20148 min read


Justifying Crimea: President Putin Invokes R2P
I’m certainly a little late to the party on Ukraine news – leading up to Russia’s bold annexation of Crimea, Ukraine was gripped for...
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Apr 11, 20143 min read


The Crimean Tatars: Whose home is it anyway?
On May 18, 1944, Joseph Stalin forcibly deported the Crimean Tatars in what is known as the “Surgun” (Crimean Tatar for ‘exile’). As the...
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Mar 14, 20144 min read


Crisis in Crimea: The Challenge of an Alternative Worldview
Russian expansionism makes many alarm bells go off in the Western world. When Putin’s forces occupied Crimea on February 27, observers in...
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Mar 10, 20144 min read


Chess In Chisinau: East Or West?
Long dismissed as the poorest country in Europe, the Republic of Moldova is now on a path towards integration with Western Europe that...
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Mar 6, 20146 min read
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