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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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    A House Gutted by Fire

    Terry Lynn Karl blames the inferno now consuming Los Angeles County squarely on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway

    For decades, an efficiency-centered “economic style” has dominated public policy, overriding the concerns for fairness that animated the New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. Now, Americans must brace for economic governance that delivers neither efficiency nor fairness, only chaos.

    highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.
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    Can US Institutions Withstand Trump 2.0?

    While some observers doubt that US President-elect Donald Trump poses a grave threat to US democracy, others are bracing themselves for the destruction of the country’s constitutional order. With Trump’s inauguration just around the corner, we asked PS commentators how vulnerable US institutions really are.

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    The Climate Policy Pendulum

    Gernot Wagner notes that green technologies retain their many advantages, regardless of national political developments.
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    Could High-Skill Immigration Increase Under Trump?

    Michael R. Strain argues that the recent kerfuffle over foreign workers underscores the president-elect’s pragmatic instincts.
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    What Happened to International Law?

    Eric Posner sees the web of treaties, conventions, and institutions as another victim of the anti-globalization backlash.
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    Europe’s Year of Fundamental Choices

    Ana Palacio considers the complex array of internal and external challenges the European Union must confront in 2025.
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    Texas’s Online Age-Verification Law Must Be Overturned

    Lilian Coral & Prem Trivedi urge the US Supreme Court to protect internet users from legislation posing new privacy and security risks.
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    Revealing an Invisible Health Threat

    Angela Bandemehr & Albert Park tout deployment of hand-held X-ray devices to prevent lead poisoning in low- and middle-income countries.

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