UBC researchers are available to comment on the escalating crisis in Crimea, from geopolitics to Canada’s response.
POLITICS
Lisa Sundstrom
Dept. of Political Science
Tel: 604.822.6331
Email: lisa.sundstrom@ubc.ca
- Russia and politics
- Democracy and human rights
- Q&A with Sundstrom on Russian politics
Allen Sens
Dept. of Political Science
Tel: 604.822.6127
Email: asens@politics.ubc.ca
- Geopolitics
- Military and security
- Q&A with Sens on Russian security forces
Allan Craigie
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Political Science
Email: Allan.craigie@ubc.ca
Tel. 604.822.4731
- Nationalist mobilization in Russia and beyond
- Canadian politics
“The invasion of Crimea stems not just from an attempt to secure a strategic Russian position, it comes from a resurgence of Russian ethnic nationalism that is resentful at losing the Cold War and the loss of superpower status under the last Russian Empire, the Soviet Union,” says Craigie. “It desperately desires to reclaim that kind of respect/power in the international arena, and is very resentful of the West which not only won the Cold War, but is seen as encroaching and expanding into Russia’s traditional imperial sphere of influence.”
Arjun Chowdhury
Dept. of Political Science
Tel: 604.822.1480
Email: arjun.chowdhury@ubc.ca
- Difficult path to ‘new’ democracy in Ukraine (read the full Q&A)
- Autocratic regimes and the transition to democracy
Anastasiya Salnykova (in Kyiv)
PhD candidate, UBC Dept. of Political Science
Contact via UBC Public Affairs: 604.822.2048, basil.waugh@ubc.ca
- Russian and Ukrainian politics
- Ethnic relations in Ukraine
Dasha Prykhodko
Lecturer of Russian, Dept. of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies
Tel: 604.822.6604
Email: dariyap@mail.ubc.ca
Bozena Karwowska
Dept. of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies
Tel : 604-822-5956
Email: bozena@mail.ubc.ca
- Interaction between politics and literature
- Slavic literatures and cultures
BUSINESS
Viktoria Hnatkovska (born in Ukraine)
UBC’s Vancouver School of Economics
Tel. 604.822.2408
Email: Viktoriya.Hnatkovska@ubc.ca
- Economic impacts of the crisis
Keith Head
Sauder School of Business
Tel: 604 822-8492
Email: keith.head@sauder.ubc.ca
- Impacts on International trade/business