Oxana Shevel

1 month ago | justsecurity.org | Maria Popova |Oxana Shevel

President Donald Trump appears to be well on his way to a geopolitical shift in U.S. policy, from backing Ukraine’s existential fight for survival in the face of Russian aggression to siding with Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Oct 4, 2024 | lawfaremedia.org | Oxana Shevel

Yaroslav Trofimov’s “Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence” offers a comprehensive and gripping account of the first year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The invasion shocked the world, but Ukraine’s ability to withstand the Russian military onslaught was, for many, even more shocking.

Aug 21, 2024 | warontherocks.com | Oxana Shevel |Mark Galeotti |Olga Oliker |Michael Reynolds

Beginning on August 6, 2024, Ukrainian forces launched an incursion into Russian territory, pushing over seven miles into Kursk Oblast. Two weeks after the surprise operation, Ukrainian forces are still inching forward, deeper into Russia. We asked a panel of experts about the significance of the operation, how it might play out, and whether it could turn the tide of the war in Ukraine’s favor. Read more below.

Apr 23, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Maria Popova |Oxana Shevel |Maria Lipman |Amy Knight

In This Review In This Review Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging StatesAs they meticulously trace developments in Russia and Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Popova and Shevel point out that the current war was not preordained. In the early 1990s, both countries followed parallel tracks as they struggled to overcome dysfunctional economies and social and political chaos.

Apr 23, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Richard Sakwa |Maria Lipman |Maria Popova |Oxana Shevel

In This Review In This Review The Lost Peace: How the West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold WarSakwa, a political scientist, offers an eloquent and persuasive argument about how the world squandered the promise of the end of the Cold War and plunged into what he calls “Cold War II,” epitomized by the ongoing proxy war between Russia and the West over Ukraine.