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Ukrainian Political Science and the Study of Ukraine within American Political Science: How Similar, How Different?

Oxana Shevel
April 2015

The objective of this essay is to compare key characteristics, pathways of development, and challenges facing the discipline of political science in the West (primarily in the US) and in Ukraine, to consider the causes of these differences, and to reflect on what it would take for political science in Ukraine to overcome the challenges it has faced in the post-Soviet period.

Ukrainian Studies in Europe: New Possibilities

Rory Finnin
April 2015

The field of Ukrainian Studies is dogged by an epistemological problem. Like nature, knowledge should abhor a vacuum. Academic research should gravitate toward big, unknown, complex things. But if the recent crisis has made anything clear, it is that Ukraine remains Europe’s terra malecognita: large, diverse, understudied, badly understood. At times I illustrate the problem to my students by way of an interdisciplinary analogy: imagine a physicist in 1991 who discovers in her laboratory a new particle, the largest of its kind in a particular system.

Political Science and Politics in Ukraine after the February Revolution

Paul J. D'Anieri
April 2015

The European revolution of 2014 has once again opened up the prospect of far-reaching change in Ukraine and highlighted how much change is needed if Ukraine is to become, what many people in the country hope for—a “European country.”

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JUPS Launches Its First Issue

June 25, 2015

On June 25 2015 the Journal of Ukrainian Politics and Society, the Krytyka Institute, the Fulbright Program in Ukraine and Kyiv School of Economics co-organized a roundtable discussion on the “Social Sciences in Ukraine: Their State, Role and Further Development” at the Fulbright Office in Kyiv.

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