{"id":466,"date":"2014-03-05T11:33:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T11:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canterburypolitics.wordpress.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2018-09-18T14:34:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:34:25","slug":"open-lecture-on-ukrainian-crisis-on-the-brink-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/2014\/03\/05\/open-lecture-on-ukrainian-crisis-on-the-brink-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Lecture on Ukrainian Crisis: On the Brink of War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making Politics Matter is happy to invite you to the following event:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Ukraine on the Brink to War?<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has dominated news reports in recent weeks. As a result of refusing to tie closer links with the EU by President Yanukovich a public movement started, which was able to remove him from power. As a result, a new interim government took power and has tried to forge closer links between Ukraine and the EU. However, particularly in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine people have been unsupportive of the changes in Kiev, and they continue to support stronger links with Moscow. In March 2014 Russian troops occupied Crimea and there is an intense risk of war between Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/canterburypolitics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/ukraine-2010-election.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-470\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"http:\/\/canterburypolitics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/ukraine-2010-election.jpg?w=650\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Image via www.washingtonpost.com)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucd.ie\/spire\/staff\/academicstaff\/\">Dr Erin Baumann<\/a> is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin.\u00a0 Her expertise is in foreign policy analysis, particularly the post-Soviet space.\u00a0 She has been a visiting research fellow at Belarusian State University and National University of Kyiv \u2013 Mohyla Academy, Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>She will be speaking at The Old Sessions House, OG32 (The Old Court Room) on Tuesday, 11 March at 7pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event is free and no registration is required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making Politics Matter is happy to invite you to the following event:\u00a0Ukraine on the Brink to War?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161081,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[709,1433,1965,2241],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-erin-baumann","tag-making-politics-matter","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Anna Vanaga","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/645\/2018\/08\/blogs-holding680x453.jpg","postExcerpt":"Making Politics Matter is happy to invite you to the following event:\u00a0Ukraine on the Brink to War?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4629,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/4629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}