AABS is pleased to announce Kevin Axe as the recipient of a 2023-2024 Dissertation Grant - congratulations!

Kevin's dissertation assesses the intellectual roots of Estonia’s market reforms in ideas and experiences of the late Soviet era. Read more: aabs-balticstudies.org/2023/05/05/axe…

'Now is not the time to snatch Russian defeat from Ukraine’s jaws of victory,' David J. Kramer, John Herbst, and William B. Taylor Jr. write:

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My book review of Aldo Madariaga's 'Neoliberal Resilience: lessons in democracy and development from Latin America and eastern Europe' in the Journal of Baltic Studies is now online. Click away!
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Did you know that #Estonia has donated ~1/3 of its military budget to help #Ukraine 🇺🇦, according to Estonian MFA 🇪🇪 | 🌻 #StandWithUkraine? 'Such commitments (...) demonstrate its ability to employ soft power in wartime', writes Kevin Axe. Read more in the new #ScriptsBlog ➡️ scripts-berlin.eu/blog/Blog-57-U…

On Monday, Putin said Ukraine does not exist. Last night, he began his bid to wipe it from the map. But Ukraine is a real place, with a real history, and it will never be erased. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The sad thing is that if we hadn’t expanded NATO, Putin would have tirelessly devoted himself to world peace and the brotherhood of man.

Perhaps the biggest tell in the 1776 report is that it lists 'Progressivism' along with 'Slavery' and 'Fascism' in its list of 'challenges to America's principles.' Time to rewrite my lectures to say that ending child labor and regulating meatpacking = Hitlerism.