Fumbling in the Dark
“Experts” during the Ukraine Crisis: A Polemic
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
After a year of discussion about the crisis in Ukraine and Russia’s war against Ukraine, it is time to take stock. The renaissance of geopolitical fatalism, the sovereignty over interpretation asserted by self-proclaimed experts, the historically taboo thoughts, and the speechlessness of specialists, in particular historians, yield a nightmarish report: faced with its greatest challenge, Germany’s Eastern Europe experts have failed.
(Osteuropa 9-10/2014, pp. 13–34)