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Anastassia Fedyk

Anastassia Fedyk

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Anastassia Fedyk is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.

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  1. Ukraine Is Far From Doomed
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    Ukraine Is Far From Doomed

    Apr 24, 2024 Tatyana Deryugina & Anastassia Fedyk compare Russia's full-scale invasion to World War II and see reason to hope – as long as aid keeps flowing.

  2. No, Russia Is Not Winning
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    No, Russia Is Not Winning

    Mar 6, 2024 Anastassia Fedyk & Yuriy Gorodnichenko see Ukraine’s economic outlook improving as the Russian economy experiences greater strains.

  3. Western Technology Firms Must Stop Supplying Russia’s War Machine
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    Western Technology Firms Must Stop Supplying Russia’s War Machine

    Feb 14, 2024 Anastassia Fedyk, et al. outline several steps that governments can take to close the loopholes in the current sanctions regime.

  4. Russia’s Defeat Must Be Democracies’ Goal
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    Russia’s Defeat Must Be Democracies’ Goal

    Oct 17, 2023 Anastassia Fedyk, et al. refute the main arguments against giving Ukraine the weapons and other support it needs to win the war.

  5. Russia’s Opposition Leaders Are Irrelevant to Ukraine
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    Russia’s Opposition Leaders Are Irrelevant to Ukraine

    Mar 8, 2023 Anastassia Fedyk, et al. denounce efforts by anti-Kremlin forces to appropriate Ukraine’s cause for their own purposes.

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    Making Biodiversity Credits Work

    Almir Narayamoga Suruí & Simon Zadek suggest how to realize the potential of this innovative mechanism for financing nature conservation.
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    Polish Democracy’s Winter of Discontent

    Sławomir Sierakowski explains why enthusiasm for the country’s ruling coalition has waned over the past year.
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    What Remote Work Can Do for Global Development

    Charles Ferguson points out that the decoupling of economic activity from geographic location has only just begun.
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    Saving Democracy from Itself

    Slavoj Žižek applauds French President Emmanuel Macron’s maneuvering to keep the far right at bay.
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    First Trump Came for the Immigrants

    Nina L. Khrushcheva warns that mass deportations will carry high costs, not just for the economy, but for America’s soul.
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    Will the IMF Survive to 100?

    Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr. & Robert H. Wade

    The World Trade Organization's precipitous decline into irrelevance should serve as a warning to the International Monetary Fund's shareholder governments, its management, and everyone who values multilateral economic cooperation. In a rapidly changing world, global institutions must reform or die.

    propose incremental changes to keep developing and emerging economies on board and engaged.
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    European Security Cannot Be Found in the Past

    Friedrich Merz

    The old Europe of the Cold War sought comfort in the past and confidence in the solitary US leadership that defined the era. Unfortunately, when it comes to its own security, Europe seemingly remains in a time warp, stuck somewhere before 1989.

    laments that nostalgia for US leadership unites a continent that must define the decisive action needed now.
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    The Biodiversity Crisis Is a Security Crisis

    Hailemariam Desalegn urges governments to recognize that the degradation of ecosystems poses a major threat to global stability.
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    The US Election and the Crisis of Whiteness

    Edoardo Campanella sees long-term demographic trends driving the country’s increasingly divisive politics.

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