[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 3/23/22: Links to recent articles on the war in Ukraine

[Jim O'Brien]

*Note:* H-PAD is interested in hearing about any campus/local activities
(including webinars or zoomed sessions) around the war in Ukraine. Please
write to Rusti Eisenberg (Hiscze at hofstra.edu) or Andor Skotnes (
skotna at sage.edu) with any information.



*Links to Recent Articles of Interest on the Ukraine Crisis*

*"Putin Made a Profound Miscalculation on Ukraine"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/19/opinion/ukraine-russia-putin-history.html>
By *Yaroslav** Hrytsak,* *New York Times, *posted March 19
*Argues that Russia and Ukraine have diverged historically. "Simply put, a
victorious democratic revolution is almost impossible in Russia, whereas a
viable authoritarian government is almost impossible in Ukraine." The
author is a Ukrainian historian who teaches at Ukrainian Catholic
University.*

*"Ukraine Has Already Won  the War"*
<https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/03/18/has-ukraine-already-won-the-war>
By *Anatol Lieven, **Responsible Statecraft, *posted March 18
*"... Russia has lost Ukraine. The West should recognize this Russian
defeat, and give its full support to a peace settlement that will safeguard
Ukraine’s real interests, sovereignty, and ability to develop as an
independent democracy. Neutrality, and territories that Ukraine has already
in practice lost for the past eight years, are minor issues by comparison."
The author is a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for
Responsible Statecraft and has written several books on Russia and its
neighbors.*

*"How to Do What's Right Without Starting World War III: A Conversation
with Historian and Foreign Policy Scholar Stephen Wertheim"*
<https://the.ink/p/how-to-do-whats-right-without-starting?s=r>
By *Anand Giridharadas,* *The.Ink, *posted March 17

*"... I worry that President Zelensky might one day be willing to make a
peace agreement but the West might prevent the agreement from being reached
by being unwilling to lift some of the most severe sanctions it has
imposed, like the sanctions on the Russian central bank. If that were to
happen, the West would in effect be bleeding Ukrainians in order to bleed
Russians." Stephen Wertheim is a historian and senior fellow at the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.*

*"Why China Should Help Mediate to End the Russia-Ukraine Crisis"*
<https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/03/15/why-beijing-should-help-mediate-to-end-the-russia-ukraine-crisis>
By *Peter Kuznick, **Responsible Statecraft, *posted March 15

*Argues that China is uniquely positioned to facilitate an end to the war.
"While the responsibility here clearly lies with Putin, who unleashed this
criminal invasion, there’s plenty of blame to go around and, in the end,
there are no winners in a war that could have and should have been averted
before it began." The author teaches history at American University *

*"A New Kind of Memory for a New Kind of War?"*
<http://hnn.us/article/182670>
By *Shannon Bontrager, *History News Network, posted March 13
On the "second front" opened by Ukrainians in resisting the Russian
invasion.  This second front is being conducted on digital platforms with
scripted and unscripted images, videos, and speeches that are shaping the
way we remember the conflict, even as it is being waged." The author
teaches history at Georgia Highlands College.

*"Putin's Endgame Is Not a Mystery. It's Regime Survival"*
<https://www.rsn.org/001/putins-endgame-is-not-a-mystery-its-regime-survival.html>
By *Peter Maass, **Reader Supported News, *posted March 14
*"Staying in power - doing whatever is necessary to stay there - is the new
endgame." Compares Putin's ruinous actions in Ukraine with those of
Slobodan Milosovic in Bosnia in the early 1990s. The author is a veteran
journalist who covered the Bosnian war.*

*"The Weakness of the Despot: A Scholar of Stalin Discusses Putin, Russia,
Ukraine, and the West"
<https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/stephen-kotkin-putin-russia-ukraine-stalin>
*
Interview with *Stephen Krotkin *by David Remnick, *New Yorker, *posted
March 11

*Stephen Krotkin teaches history at Princeton University and has published
two volumes of a projected three-volume biography of Joseph Stalin. This
interview is a wide-ranging discussion with much emphasis on continuity in
Russian history and speculation on present-day dynamics around Putin. He
warns against a "maximalist spiral" that would lead to "cornering" Putin,
who "has many tools that he hasn’t used that can hurt us." *


*"The Geopolitics of the Ukraine War: Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in the
Struggle over Eurasia"
<https://tomdispatch.com/the-geopolitics-of-the-ukraine-war>*
By* Alfred McCoy, *TomDispatch.com, posted March 10
*On the relations of world powers in the Eurasian continent in the decades
since World War II, as background for the Ukraine war. The author teaches
history at the University of Wisconsin. The most recent of his many books
is *To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change *(Haymarket
Books, 2021).*

*"What the Libya War Tells Us about Why We Really Don't Want a NATO No-Fly
Zone" <https://www.juancole.com/2022/03/ukraine-libya-really.html>*
By *Juan Cole, *Informed Comment blog, posted March 9
*"... In other words, the prerequisite for a no-fly zone over Ukraine right
now would be a massive American attack on the Russian military." The author
teaches Middle East history at the University of Michigan. *

*"The 'End of History' ... Again?"*
<https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/03/07/the-end-of-history-again>
By *Andrew J. Bacevich, **Responsible Statecraft, *posted March 7
*"However distressing to admit, crimes committed by the United States in
recent years, usually justified under the guise of liberating the oppressed
and spreading democracy, have inflicted more damage on the international
order than anything done by Russia." The author is a retired Army colonel
and a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston
University. *


*Thanks to Mara Dodge, Rusti Eisenberg, and an anonymous reader for
suggesting some of the articles included above and to Steve Gosch for
valuable consulting. Suggestions for articles to be linked in these
occasional listings can be sent to jimobrien48 at gmail.com
<jimobrien48 at gmail.com>.*
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