Crimea as Kosovo and Sudetenland: The Peril of Historical Narratives in the 2014 Russo-Ukrainian Crisis.
Journal: KU ScholarWorks (The University of Kansas)
Year: 2014

Putin's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in March 2014 upended a political order in Eastern Europe that, except Yugoslavia's disintegration, had been remarkably coherent for a generation after the 1989-1991 collapse of the Soviet-imposed system.The ensuing international crisis has provoked a bewildering variety of historical references, as observers look to the past to make sense of crisis participants' behavior -and their next moves.Everyone thinks the past is prologue; disagreement abounds