287. Alexander Motyl - Is the Idea that Russia is Too Big to Fail Holding Back Western Strategic Support?

“As the world watches two Russian thugs fight it out, it’s important to remember that both of them have been, and still are, implicated in Russia’s ongoing genocide in Ukraine.” This is taken from an article written by Alexander Motyl in The Hill, dated 28th June 2023. ------- Alexander Motyl is an American historian, political scientist, poet, writer, translator, and artist. He lives in New York and is a professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. Alexander is a specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union. He has taught at Columbia University, Lehigh University, the Ukrainian Free University, the Kyiv-Mohyla University, and Harvard University. Aside from academic work, he also writes opinion columns in publications such as Foreign Policy, Forty-Five, The Hill and the Kyiv Post. ------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-motyl-9847877/ https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/alexander-motyl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_J._Motyl ------- ARTICLES: https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4303178-why-do-russian-soldiers-keep-marching-into-slaughter/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/05/russia-ukraine-empire-imperialism-war/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4283716-reports-of-putins-death-might-not-be-greatly-exaggerated/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/07/russia-ukraine-putin-collapse-disintegration-civil-war-empire/ https://euobserver.com/opinion/156539 https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4233203-when-foreign-policy-realists-are-naive/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3873506-why-doesnt-the-global-south-support-ukraines-anti-colonial-struggle/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4264589-is-russia-a-civilization/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4162176-the-wrong-way-to-talk-about-ukraines-counteroffensive/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3884025-its-not-nato-putin-always-has-had-expansionist-designs/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3818390-in-ukraine-nothing-except-for-a-great-emptiness-inside/ ------- BOOKS: Academic books The Turn to the Right: The Ideological Origins and Development of Ukrainian Nationalism, 1919-1929 (1980) Will the Non-Russians Rebel? State, Ethnicity, and Stability in the USSR (1987) Sovietology, Rationality, Nationality: Coming to Grips with Nationalism in the USSR (1990) Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine after Totalitarianism, (1993) Revolutions, Nations, Empires: Conceptual Limits and Theoretical Possibilities (1999) Imperial Ends: The Decline, Collapse, and Revival of Empires (2001) Ukraine vs Russia: Revolution, Democracy, and War (2017) Bits and Pieces (2020) National Questions: Theoretical Reflections on Nations and Nationalism in Eastern Europe (2022) Editor Between America and Galicia: The Memoirs of Maria and Alexander Motyl (2019) The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941: A Sourcebook (2016) The Holodomor Reader: A Sourcebook on the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine (2012) Russia’s Engagement with the West: Transformation and Integration in the Twenty-First Century, co-edited with Blair Ruble and Lilia Shevtsova (2005) The Encyclopedia of Nationalism, 2 vols. (2000) -------