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Vasyl Cherepanyn

Vasyl Cherepanyn

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Vasyl Cherepanyn is Head of the Visual Culture Research Center in Kyiv and organizer of the Kyiv Biennial, an international forum for art, knowledge, and politics.

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  1. Reckoning with Eastern Europe’s Colonial Trauma
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    Reckoning with Eastern Europe’s Colonial Trauma

    May 2, 2023 Vasyl Cherepanyn argues that Russia’s war in Ukraine has thrown the region’s legacy of brutal subjugation into sharp relief.

  2. Why Does the West Refuse to Call Putin’s Russia Fascist?
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    Why Does the West Refuse to Call Putin’s Russia Fascist?

    Jun 3, 2022 Vasyl Cherepanyn blames rich democracies’ political centrists and financial elites for bolstering the Russian regime.

  3. Putin’s World War Z
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    Putin’s World War Z

    Apr 11, 2022 Vasyl Cherepanyn explains how the Russian president has increasingly defined himself in contrast to the West.

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    Argentina’s Inflation Paradoxes

    Andrés Velasco asks whether President Javier Milei's administration can sustain its initial economic-policy successes.
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    The Privileged Gaza Protesters

    Ian Buruma argues that fear of losing rank could be driving students to demonstrate their intersectional bona fides.
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    What Mission-Driven Government Means

    Mariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel correct common misconceptions about a particular form of state participation in the economy.
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    The Psychologist Who Convinced Economists that to Err Is Human

    Antara Haldar reflects on the pioneering work and legacy of one of the world’s most influential social scientists.
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    Will the Renewed US Support for Ukraine Be Enough?

    Ian Bremmer

    Sixteen months of congressional inaction in the United States has left Ukrainian forces exhausted and short on ammo. Although America has now finally enacted another package of financial and military aid, the best that the Ukrainians can hope for is another stalemate, rather than another major offensive against Russian lines.

    explains how an additional $61 billion in aid and arms will, and will not, change the course of the war.
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    The Lasting Legacy of Abenomics

    Koichi Hamada highlights two important aspects of the late Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō’s policy agenda.
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    Fertilizers Will Not Fix Africa’s Food Crisis

    Silke Bollmohr & Harun Warui refute the idea that industrial inputs will increase yields and alleviate hunger on the continent.
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    What TikTok Got Wrong About America

    Nancy Qian thinks the company sealed its fate by aggressively interfering in the US political process.
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    US-China Cooperation Remains Possible

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    Although the US has abandoned its policy of engagement with China, the strategy of great-power competition that has replaced it does not preclude cooperation in some areas. A good analogy is a soccer match, where two teams battle fiercely but abide by certain rules and boundaries, kicking only the ball, rather than each other.

    identifies seven areas where the two countries can still work together toward mutually beneficial outcomes.

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