The Russia-Ukraine war has exposed systematic failures to explain the war's actual trajectory — Ukraine's fragmentation, Russia's authoritarian consolidation, and the fragility of Western unity. This lecture argues that these analytical failures reflect a deeper crisis of knowledge, rooted in the inadequacy of prevailing analytical frameworks for understanding post-Soviet transformation: theories of democratization, patronal politics, […]

This talk examines postwar German–Israeli military-industrial relations as a constitutive site in which Holocaust memory, Cold War realignment, and contemporary security governance converge. Challenging interpretations that attribute the ideological and narrative architecture of Germany’s material support for Israel genocidal campaign to a “derailed” memory politics, it will examine how the dominant discourse of German historical […]