Ukraine on the Brink with Volodymyr Ishchenko

The latest in our series on Imperialism and Capitalism

As part of our series on Capitalism and Imperialism, David Jamieson spoke to Volodymyr Ishchenko about his new book Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War.

What does the Ukraine war tell us about the problem of national sovereignty in a world divided by powerful states? Are we witnessing a transformation of Russian capitalism as a consequence of the war? These and many other issues are discussed in this fascinating interview.

Volodymyr Ishchenko is a research associate at the Institute of East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. 

In Ukraine, he lectured at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Kyiv Polytechnic Institute as well as initiated and supervised Ukrainian Protest and Coercion Data project. His research focused on protests and social movements, revolutions, radicalization, right and left politics, nationalism, civil society. He authored many peer-reviewed articles and interviews on contemporary Ukrainian politics, the Euromaidan revolution, and the following war in 2013-14 published in Post-Soviet Affairs, Globalizations, New Left Review, among other journals.

He has been a prominent contributor to The Guardian and Jacobin. He is a member of the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia network administered by George Washington University, D.C.