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乌克兰危机
在这本内容丰富的著作中，加拿大、乌克兰和美国学者从多个角度探讨了乌克兰危机，并思考了其对欧洲的影响。章节涵盖的主题包括：俄罗斯对乌克兰的叙述；两国各自不同的国家建设议程背后相互矛盾的假设；关于极右翼参与独立广场抗议活动的新发现；从西方大战略视角看待乌克兰危机；俄罗斯在乌克兰地缘政治议程的安全影响；导致顿巴斯分离主义兴起的因素；以及乌克兰选择与欧洲而非欧亚大陆经济一体化的经济代价。本书表明，乌克兰当前的危机远比媒体报道的要复杂得多。本书还探讨了这样一个事实：由于俄罗斯和乌克兰将永远是邻居，因此两国之间必须找到某种妥协方案。
古希腊悲剧如何教给我们解决冲突的道理
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110743371/html?lang=en
Nicolai N. Petro 2023
关于本书
乌克兰的冲突有着深厚的国内根源。三分之一的人口，主要在东部和南部，认为其俄罗斯文化认同与乌克兰公民认同完全兼容。国家不愿承认这个民族是现代乌克兰民族的合法组成部分，这造成了一个悲剧循环，使乌克兰政治陷入困境。
《乌克兰悲剧》认为，要化解乌克兰内部的冲突，必须在情感和制度层面加以解决。本书借鉴了理查德·内德·勒博的“政治悲剧观”以及古希腊悲剧，以帮助理解这场冲突的持续性。古希腊悲剧曾是雅典社会治愈深刻社会创伤和建立更公正制度的机制。《乌克兰悲剧》反思了古希腊悲剧如何帮助我们重新思考公民冲突和两极分化，并为弥合深刻的社会分歧树立榜样。
对乌克兰冲突的极具创新性的分析
挑战了乌克兰冲突主要为国家间冲突的传统观点，借鉴古希腊悲剧，帮助理解这场冲突的持续及其解决机制
作者/编辑信息
尼古拉·N·佩特罗是罗德岛大学政治学教授，专攻俄罗斯和乌克兰问题。他的专业重点是宗教、历史和文化符号在民主发展中的作用。
评论
“精彩绝伦、见解深刻、研究透彻的研究。对于希望了解乌克兰战争起因及其对世界其他地区影响的人来说，这是必读之作。” 杰克·F·马特洛克，美国驻苏联大使（1987-1991），著有《帝国解剖》和《超级大国幻想》。
“这本书的独特之处在于，它放大了‘另一个乌克兰’的声音，而这些声音既不符合普京的‘单一民族’，也不符合乌克兰主导的国家建设计划。”柏林自由大学 Volodymyr Ishchenko
“这项令人信服且独具匠心的研究为我们这个时代的一大悲剧提供了独特的视角，必将成为经典。” Richard Sakwa，肯特大学，《乌克兰前线》作者
“《乌克兰的悲剧》是了解乌克兰历史和文化多样性的重要指南，引人入胜，也对几个世纪以来困扰该地区的最新一系列冲突的现状进行了引人入胜的描绘。” Katrina vanden Heuvel，《国家报》出版商
“这本充满智慧和意义的著作将希腊悲剧的教训应用于乌克兰冲突。Petro 的文笔优雅而深邃，仔细地追溯了通往毁灭的道路以及潜在的出路。”约翰·昆西·亚当斯学会会长兼科罗拉多学院名誉教授戴维·C·亨德里克森
“尼古拉·佩特罗以古希腊悲剧为视角，对乌克兰冲突的分析论证精辟，图文并茂，且具有潜在的疗愈作用。如果我们仔细聆听他基于长期居住在乌克兰的经历所作的描述，就会发现他笔下所描绘的乌克兰是一个文化深度断裂的国家，如果中央集权的绝对统治得以延续，冲突将不可避免。” 卡内基国际事务伦理委员会高级研究员兼美国全球参与项目创始主任戴维·C·斯皮迪
“佩特罗提出的解决方案是将古希腊悲剧作家的宝贵经验应用于乌克兰危机，这一方案及时、独到，最重要的是，它充满智慧。” 詹姆斯·卡登，《负责任的治国之道》
“这本书主要写于2022年俄罗斯入侵乌克兰之前，[...]对于任何想知道如何应对危机的人来说，它都是一本富有启发性的读物。”
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Ukraine In Crisis
Nicolai Petro 2017
In this comprehensive volume, Canadian, Ukrainian, and American scholars examine various aspects of the Ukrainian crisis, and consider its impact on Europe. The chapters include topics such as: Russian narratives about Ukraine; the conflicting assumptions underlying their divergent nation-building agendas; new findings about the far right's involvement in the Maidan protests; the Ukrainian crisis from the perspective of Western grand strategy; the security implications of Russia's geopolitical agenda in Ukraine; the factors that contributed to the rise of separatism in Donbass; and the economic costs for Ukraine of choosing economic integration with Europe rather than Eurasia. This book demonstrates that the current crisis in Ukraine is much more complex than comes across in the media. It also explores the fact that, since Russia and Ukraine will always be neighbours, some sort ofmodus vivendibetween them will have to be found.
The conflict in Ukraine has deep domestic roots. A third of the population, primarily in the East and South, regards its own Russian cultural identity as entirely compatible with a Ukrainian civic identity. The state’s reluctance to recognize this ethnos as a legitimate part of the modern Ukrainian nation, has created a tragic cycle that entangles Ukrainian politics.
The Tragedy of Ukraine argues that in order to untangle the conflict within the Ukraine, it must be addressed on an emotional, as well as institutional level. It draws on Richard Ned Lebow’s ‘tragic vision of politics’ and on classical Greek tragedy to assist in understanding the persistence of this conflict. Classical Greek tragedy once served as a mechanism in Athenian society to heal deep social trauma and create more just institutions. The Tragedy of Ukraine reflects on the ways in which ancient Greek tragedy can help us rethink civic conflict and polarization, as well as model ways of healing deep social divisions.
- Highly innovative analysis of the Ukrainian conflict
- Challenges the conventional view that it is primarily an interstate conflict
- Draws on classical Greek tragedy to assist in understanding the persistence, and resolution, of this conflict
Author / Editor information
Nicolai N. Petro is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island, specializing in Russia and Ukraine. His professional focus is on the role that religion, history, and cultural symbols can play in democratic development.
Reviews
"Brilliant, insightful, thoroughly researched study. Essential reading for those who wish to understand the causes of the war in Ukraine and its implications for the rest of the world." Jack F. Matlock, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to USSR, 1987–1991, author of Autopsy on an Empire, and Superpower Illusions
"The book is unique in amplifying the voices of the ‘other Ukraine’ that fit neither Putin’s ‘single people’ nor the dominant Ukrainian nation-building projects." Volodymyr Ishchenko, Freie Universität Berlin
"This convincing and original study provides a unique insight into one of the great tragedies of our time and is set to become a classic." Richard Sakwa, University of Kent, author of Frontline Ukraine
"The Tragedy of Ukraine is an important and intriguing guide to Ukraine’s historical and cultural diversity, and a riveting portrait of the current in the latest series of conflicts that have besieged this area of the world for centuries." Katrina vanden Heuvel, Publisher, The Nation
"This wise and important book applies the lessons of Greek tragedy to the conflict in Ukraine. Petro writes gracefully and knowingly, carefully tracing the path into doom and the potential ways out." David C. Hendrickson, president of the John Quincy Adams Society and professor emeritus at Colorado College
"Nicolai Petro’s analysis of the Ukrainian conflict through the lens of ancient Greek tragedy is brilliantly argued, meticulously illustrated and potentially therapeutic, if we heed his account – based on extended periods of residence in Ukraine – of a deeply and culturally riven state, in which conflict is inevitable if absolute rule from the center is perpetuated." David C. Speedie, Senior Fellow and founding director of the program on U.S. Global Engagement at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
"The solution offered by Petro, to apply to the Ukraine crisis the lessons handed down to us by the ancient Greek tragedians, is timely, original, and most of all, wise." James Carden, Responsible Statecraft
"Written mostly before Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the book [...] is an illuminating read for anyone wishing to know how we arrived at the existential crossroads that threatens WWIII. This is the book for those hungry for an historical understanding of Ukraine’s seething internal conflict — western hypernationalism versus eastern cultural diversity — that made Ukraine vulnerable to a geopolitical power struggle, a pawn in the cruel hands of both Russia and the United States." Marcy Winograd in: Counterpunch, 06.01.2023, https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/06/the-tragedy-of-ukraine/
