Dr Gwendolyn Sasse on the latest from Ukraine

Gwendolyn Sasse wrote a piece for the New America Foundation, which was also published by the Epoch Times, on the Crimean referendum of Sunday March 16. In the article Gwen predicts that the results will indicate that the Crimean population is eager to join Russia. However, she argues that this is not the full picture. The full article can be read here.

Gwen has also been quoted in a Bloomberg News article (13 March) which also appeared on the Washington Post Online, in which she comments on the West’s historical ambivalence towards the region as well as the nature of the current interim government in Kiev. The article can be found here. She was also interviewed in the news programme for US radio station NPR (17 March) which you can listen to here [approx 02:00 on clock].

Gwen has also provided comment to three Norwegian publications - ABCNyheter, VG Nett and Nettavisen - and was interviewed with Dr Olga Onuch (SIAS and Nuffield College, Oxford) for Lidovky, a Czech daily newspaper, which can be read here.

Gwen was also part of a panel discussion on Ukraine – this year's Elliot Lecture at St. Antony's College on 14 March. The other panelists were Aleksander Kwasniewski, former President of Poland and Javier Solana, former Secretary General of NATO and former EU High Representative – the discussion was moderated by Chris Patten, Chancellor of the University of Oxford. The podcast can be found here: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ukraine-and-its-place-world

Die Welt also discusses her archival work on the transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian Socialist Republic (24 March) as a 'more detailed analysis than any other publication'.

Further appearances include the NPR blog (17 March); the NPR programme 'On Point' (18 March), alongside former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, which you can listen to here [approx 20:00 on clock]; a rolling news interview on Radio France Internationale (19 March); the Washington Post's 'Monkey Cage' blog (19 March) which can be read here; an article (20 March) for the New America Foundation's Weekly Wonk blog entitled 'The Case for the United States of Ukraine'; a reposting on the Quartz website;