Over the course of the past decade, Ukraine has been roiled by war and upheaval that stretches from 2014, when pro-EU protestors toppled the government in Kiev, through the ongoing Russian invasion that began in 2022. Throughout that time, Volodymyr Ischenko has provided invaluable commentary on Ukraine’s accelerating downward spiral. While the particulars—the drawn-out process of demodernization following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Russia’s increasingly desperate attempts to maintain its fractured hegemony over its former satellites—may be unique to Ukraine, a surprisingly similar pattern has emerged across much of the globe in the 21st century.

For this event, Ischenko will be in conversation with Vincent Bevins, author of If We Burn, to discuss the situation in Ukraine, how things went from mass protests to war in that country, and what that process reveals about the global order.

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Speakers:

Vincent Bevins is the author of The Jakarta Method (2020) and If We Burn (2023), and previously served as a foreign correspondent for fifteen years, primarily in Southeast Asia and Latin America.

Dr. Volodymyr Ischenko is a Ukrainian sociologist, currently at Freie Universität Berlin. He published widely on contemporary Ukrainian politics, the Euromaidan revolution and the ensuing war, notably in the Guardian, Al Jazeera, New Left Review, and Jacobin. He is the author of Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War.