On the day that Russia attacked Ukraine, 24 February 2022, I was with my friend and colleague Tuomas Forsberg (TF) at the gym swimming as we do every now and then. We discussed the war and, above all, whether it could have been avoided and how. Over the years, we have had countless similar [...]
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Ukraine’s decentralization reform has been hailed as one of the country’s most successful since the 2013-2014 Revolution of Dignity. Recently, a piece in Foreign Affairs claimed that Ukraine’s decentralization has ‘brought the country together’ in the face of Russia’s 2022 invasion, fostering [...]
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Immediately after Russian troops attacked Ukraine in February 2022, a group of Western countries – including the U.S., EU states, Australia, Great Britain and Japan – imposed tough sanctions against Russia. French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire announced on March 1, 2022, that [...]
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused humanitarian catastrophe and vast economic destruction. Ukraine has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for emergency financing, the European Commission has pledged €1.2 billion to the besieged nation, and the World Bank has positioned itself as a [...]
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The war in Donbas has raged for almost seven years. The conflict, fought between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and ‘pro-Russian’ separatist groups and primarily affecting the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetska and Luhanska, has continued since 2014. The war has been waged over a 427km contact [...]
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My article for the Review of International Political Economy Special Issue on International Financial Institutions and Gendered Circuits of Labour and Violence investigates the gendered circuits of violence that create and sustain economic insecurities in Ukraine. In the article I argue that [...]
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