March 22nd, 2024. Explaining Ukraine. Ukraine/World International.
"How can Ukraine continue to rally support and challenge rising sentiment that Russia is "unstoppable"? What more can the media do to broaden perspectives and counter disinformation? What can we expect for Ukraine over the next year?"
"Russia and Ukraine Have Tangled Histories, Cut With Trauma”
March 8th, 2024. The Silicon Curtain.
"How can Ukraine continue to rally support and challenge rising sentiment that Russia is "unstoppable"? What more can the media do to broaden perspectives and counter disinformation? What can we expect for Ukraine over the next year?"
February 22nd, 2024. The Doorstep. Carnegie Institute for Ethics in International Affairs.
"How can Ukraine continue to rally support and challenge rising sentiment that Russia is "unstoppable"? What more can the media do to broaden perspectives and counter disinformation? What can we expect for Ukraine over the next year?"
January 29th, 2024. The Eastern Front. American Enterprise Institute.
As Putin attempts to erase Ukrainian identity, keeping Ukraine’s unique history and culture alive has become ever more important. On this episode of The Eastern Front, Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia speak with Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel, associate professors of political science at McGill University and Tufts University, respectively, to discuss their new book, Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States. How has Ukraine resisted Russian influence and pursued democracy? What impact has the war had on Ukrainian self-identity? And how has academia tackled issues around Eastern European identity?
January 29th, 2024. Thinking Global. E-International Relations.
"Professors Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel chat with Kieran O'Meara and Jennifer Engl about the factors that led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, NATO expansion and ‘westsplaining’, Regime divergence, identity, war fatigue and holding perpetrators of war crimes accountable."
January 28th, 2024. Background Briefing with Ian Masters.
"With the second anniversary of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine less than a month away, veteran broadcaster Ian Masters looks into the real reasons behind this brutal war against a neighbor’s country, its people and culture and speak with Maria Popova, a Professor of Political Science at McGill University and the Scientific Co-Director of the Jean Monnet Centre in Montreal, Canada. Also joining the podcast is Oxana Shevel, a Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Relations Program at Tufts University".
November 29th, 2023. twenty4two with Tim Gwynn Jones.
""After we trace the divergence over the last 30 years between the two states, we arrive at the conclusion that the full-scale invasion really produced ... a final rupture between Russia and Ukraine,” Maria Popova says in my latest New Books Network podcast. “There is really no going back to any possibility for Ukraine to be tied back to Russia so the only way that the war really can end is with Ukraine hopefully in its full territory but with Ukraine fully integrated into the West as a member of the EU and a member of NATO”.
"Ukraine's Threshold of Joining the European Union"
November 22nd, 2023. Ukraine 242. Pacifica Network.
On November 8th, 2023, the European Commission of the European Union published a press release stating that their 2023 Enlargement Package recommends that the European Council open accession negotiations with Ukraine, along with Moldova, based on progress made by those countries in meeting EU standards. According to Popova, this is the realization of what was almost an impossible dream for Ukrainians, exactly on the 10th anniversary of the beginning of Euromaidan demonstrations.
December 19th, 2022. Ukraine 242. Pacifica Network.
Prof. Popova gives an in-depth accounting of how, in the past 20 years, the Ukrainian people have collectively decided to become part of Western Europe and democracy. Popova says that these events and developments constitutes a turning away from Ukraine's ties with Russia and Russia's unwillingness to accept this change is the root cause of the current war in Ukraine.
