[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 4/19/22: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Matrix of War"*
<https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii133/articles/tony-wood-matrix-of-war>
By *Tony Wood, **New Left Review, *January-April 2022 issue
*An in-depth historical analysis of Ukrainian-Russian relations during and
after the Soviet era,  the dynamics at play in the current war, and the
possible outcomes. The author teaches Latin American history at Princeton
and has written two Verso Press books on recent Russian history*: Chechnya:
The Case for Independence (2007) *and* Russia Without Putin: Money, Power
and the Myths of the New Cold War (2018).

*"Putin Changed the Subject: But Confronting Martin Luther King's 'Giant
Triplets' Is More Urgent Than Ever"*
<https://tomdispatch.com/putin-changed-the-subject>
By *Andrew Bacevich, *TomDispatch.com, posted April 14
*Warns against a "new cold war" by evoking Martin Luther King's Riverside
Church speech of April 1967 denouncing the Vietnam War and calling on the
US to abandon the "giant triplets" of racism, materialism, and militarism.
The author is a retired US Army colonel and a professor emeritus of history
and international relations at Boston University.*

*"McCarthyism Re-Emerging Stronger Than Ever in Ukraine Policy Debates"*
<https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/04/11/mccarthyism-re-emerging-stronger-than-ever-in-ukraine-policy-debates>
By *Ted Galen Carpenter, **Responsible Statecraft, *posted April 11
"The stakes are far too high to stand by while practitioners of the new
McCarthyism again silence dissent. Advocating a policy of caution and
restraint does not imply the slightest sympathy for Vladimir Putin or his
war of aggression, and we must not allow reckless, unprincipled hawks to
get away with asserting that it does." *The author is a senior fellow for
defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. *

*"When Do We Lift the Sanctions?"*
<https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/april-2022/when-do-we-lift-the-sanctions>
By *Anatol Lieven, **The Critic, *April 2022 issue
Warns against the worldwide economic damage of protracted wartare and
sanctions. *"Unless you believe in the fantasies either of a complete
Russian conquest of Ukraine or of unconditional Russian surrender in
Ukraine then, whatever happens, a compromise peace will sooner or later be
necessary."The author is a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute
for Responsible Statecraft and has written several books on Russia and its
neighbors. *

*"AAUP ID's Legislative Threats to Academic Freedom: Redefinitions of
Antisemitism and Racism"* <https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/182868>
By *American Association of University Professors,* History News Network,
posted April 1
*This AAUP analysis critiques two kinds of new and proposed laws that
jeopardize academic freedom. "In the first case, legislation defines
antisemitism to include political criticism of the state of Israel. In the
second, legislation defines critical analysis of the history of slavery and
its legacies in US society as being itself racially discriminatory against
whites." *

*"Across the Country, Faculty Fight to Preserve Academic Freedom"*
<https://archive.ph/XU9p0>
* <https://archive.ph/XU9p0>*
By *Ellen Schrecker, **The Nation, *posted March 31
*"Displaying an unprecedented solidarity, the academic community is
mobilizing to confront what its members rightly perceive as an existential
assault on their professional work and values." The author is a professor
emerita at Yeshiva University and author of, among other books, *The Lost
Promise: American Universities in the 1960s *(U. of Chicago Press, 2021).*

*"A Normal War"* <https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/a-normal-war>
By *Alexander Zevin, **New Left Review/Sidecar, *posted March 31
*One of two conflicting analyses (see article by David Ost, below) of the
role of the US and NATO in bringing on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This one argues that liberal and left commentators have been too quick to
adopt the mainstream view that Putin is solely responsible for the war. The
author teaches history at the College of Staten Island, CUNY and is an
editor of *New Left Review.

*"Russia, Ukraine, NATO, and the Left"*
<https://fpif.org/russia-ukraine-nato-and-the-left>
By *David Ost, *Foreign Policy in Focus, posted March 31
*In contrast to the Zevin article, above, this analysis calls on the left
to recognize "multiple imperialisms" and denies that the invasion was a
response to NATO expansion. The author teaches politics at Hobart and
William Smith Colleges in upstate New York.*


*"'Rambo' Rides Again? Switching Roles and Purifying Souls in Ukraine"
<https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/03/28/rambo-rides-again-switching-roles-and-purifying-souls-in-ukraine>*
By *Hannah Gurman, **Responsible Statecraft, *posted March 28
*"Like the third installment of the Stallone series, America is trying to
reimagine itself while never acknowledging failures of the past." The
author teaches US history at New York University. Her most recent book,
co-edited with Kaeten Mistry, is Whistleblowing Nation: The History of
National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy(Columbia U.
Press, 2020). *

*"First Recourse for Rebels"*
<https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n06/tom-stevenson/first-recourse-for-rebels>
By *Tom Stevenson, **London Review of Books, *posted March 24
*Review essay on *The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of
Modern War *by Nicholas Mulder (Yale U. Press, March 2022). The reviewer, a
writer on international affairs, argues that from their beginnings until
today sanctions have had little impact on their intended elite targets but
have inflicted enormous suffering on civilian populations.  *

*"Washington Should Think Twice Before Launching a New Cold War: A History
Lesson for Our Desperate Moment"*
<https://tomdispatch.com/washington-should-think-twice-before-launching-a-new-cold-war>
By *William D. Hartung, Nick Cleveland-Stout, and Taylor Giorno,
*TomDispatch.com,
posted March 22
*"A growing chorus of pundits and policymakers has suggested that Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine marks the beginning of a new Cold War. If so, that
means trillions of additional dollars for the Pentagon in the years to come
coupled with a more aggressive military posture in every corner of the
world." All three authors are researchers at the Quincy Institute for
Responsible Statecraft and William D. Hartung is a senior research fellow
there.*

*Thanks to an anonymous reader for suggesting several of the above
articles, and to Steve gosch and Rusti Eisenberg for suggesting articles
and consulting on the composition of the list. Suggestions can be sent to
jimobrien48 at gmail.com <jimobrien48 at gmail.com>.*
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