Reading about revisionist Ukrainianization of Soviet Ukraine, against the standard Russification of Ukraine narratives about 70s-80s. This was published in 2002. I'm thinking about the reception this approach would get today on indigenisation. (link in next tweet)

Yes. Behind "imperialism" we find the shared interests of the same ruling-class fraction across post-Soviet borders.

I recently testified in Congress about the pernicious impact of foreign funding on civil society and was scolded by the chairman who explained that we finance NGOs so they write human rights reports that we then use as a cudgel against their countries which we don't like anyway.

Far-right parties in Europe are gathering around 20-30 percent of the electorate.

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Just what is Poland hoping to achieve by that?

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Making War Safe for Capitalism is out in a week with Bristol University Press Bristol University Press! I'm honoured to share this endorsement from the fantastic Ukrainian scholar and sociologist Dr Volodymyr Ishchenko

Absolutely extraordinary exchange between Israel and China 👇 I've never seen such a heated exchange come out of top-level forum in China (this is from the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum that started yesterday), this normally never happens. The guy speaking is Yan Xuetong, the