Alexander J. Motyl (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1984) is professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark. He served as associate director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University in 1992-1998. A specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the USSR, he is the author of six academic books and the editor or co-editor of over fifteen volumes, including The Encyclopedia of Nationalism and The Holodomor Reader: A Sourcebook on the Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine. Motyl’s weekly blog on “Ukraine’s Orange Blues” appears on www.worldaffairsjournal.org.
Alexander Motyl
Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark
Content by Alexander Motyl
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The Ukraine crisis according to John J. Mearsheimer: Impeccable Logic, Wrong Facts
Dr Alexander Motyl challenges John Mearsheimer’s assertion that the ongoing crisis in Ukraine is purely the fault of the West, arguing that Russia’s actions have gone beyond the rational Realism that Mearshimer has posited.
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What’s Next for Ukraine?
Alexander Motyl explains that the biggest challenge to resolving the crisis in Ukraine is finding a solution that Russia would accept.