The Real Origins of the Ukraine War, and Why It Matters Today: with Prof. Ivan Katchanovski

Tuesday June 23rd @ 7pm ET

Ukrainian-born Prof. Ivan Katchanovski, a political scientist at the University of Ottawa, will discuss his most recent book, The Russia-Ukraine War and Its Origins: From the Maidan Massacre to the Ukraine War. His research into the Feb. 2014 Maidan protests, massacre in Kiev, and its aftermath refutes much of the dominant narrative of the Ukrainian and U.S. governments about the causes of the war. He’ll also discuss his research into the military realities of the past four years of war, and the prospects for a negotiated peace settlement to prevent Ukraine from suffering even greater losses of soldiers, territory, and economic infrastructure.

Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa and has taught in the U.S. and Canada for many years. He has also authored The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: The Mass Killing that Changed the World, and co-authored Historical Dictionary of Ukraine, part of the series Historical Dictionaries of Europe.