Eurasian Geopolitics

Edward W. Walker, UC Berkeley

Category Archives: Russian foreign policy

Chicken Little on the probability of a Russian invasion

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Edward W. Walker • Posted in Russian foreign policy, Ukraine crisis, US-Russian relations • Tagged Russian invasion, Ukraine crisis, Ukrainian government

After a brief glimmer of hope over the weekend that we might be seeing the beginning of a de-escalation of the Ukrainian crisis thanks to four party talks in Geneva, the situation on the ground has deteriorated significantly. Continue reading →

Carrots and sticks: a strategic response to the Ukraine crisis

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Edward W. Walker • Posted in NATO, Russian foreign policy, Ukraine crisis, US-Russian relations • Tagged NATO, Russia, Ukraine crisis, US-Russian relations

EWW Talk at the Institute of Governmental Studies panel on Ukraine, University of California, Berkeley, April 11, 2014

I continue to believe that the crisis in Ukraine is extremely dangerous and that the odds of a Russian invasion before the presidential elections on May 25 are significant. Continue reading →

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I’m a recently retired comparative political scientist who worked at UC Berkeley from 1993 to December 2017. I’ve been studying the Soviet Union and its successor states since I began my graduate work at SAIS in 1984. (I went on to get my Ph.D. at Columbia — see “About” above). I started this blog in March 2014 as a way to share my take on the unfolding drama in Ukraine, but as the title suggests I plan to cover a broad range of topics. I also intend to make the posts future-oriented — that is, mostly about where we are going, although that necessarily requires consideration of where we’ve been.

If interested, you can follow me on Twitter: @gnuggat1.

EWW Recent Publications and Media Appearances

A Strategic Response to the Ukraine Crisis, Huffington Post, April 1, 2014
Between East and West: NATO Enlargement and the Geopolitics of the Ukraine Crisis
Bread and Circus: Putin and the Sochi Olympics, ISEEES Newsletter, Spring 2013
EWW email interview, Ashish Kumar Sen of The Atlantic Council, March
EWW interview on Ukrainian "Historians" website, published October 22, 2014
EWW interview with Liga.business in Kyiv, Oct. 28, 2014 [In Russian]
EWW moderating discussion with Russian Duma member Ilya Ponomarev at SF World Affairs Council, May 21, 2015
The Growing Risks of Moscow's Military Intervention in Syria, The Moscow Times, May 19, 2017
Twenty Years On: What We Thought Then, What We Know Now
What’s Behind Russia’s Moves in Ukraine? NATO Expansion, L.A. Times, March 4, 2014

Personal links

EWW bio
EWW c.v. (pdf)
UC Berkeley Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies

Ukraine crisis

Institute for the Study of War (in particular, for coverage of Syria/Iraq conflict)