Crisis and Change in Post-Cold War Global Politics

Erica Resende is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Superior War College, Brazil, and Affiliate Lecturer at the University of Oklahoma, USA. Dovilė Budrytė is Professor of Political Science at Georgia Gwinnett College, USA. Didem Buhari-Gulmez is Associate Professor in International Relations at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey.

• 1: Introduction.- 2: Crisis and Change in Global Politics: A Dialogue with Deleuze and Badiou’s Event to Understand the Crisis in Ukraine.- 3: The Rationality and Emotion of Russian Historical Memory:  The Case of Crimea.- 4: Collective Trauma, Memories and Victimization Narratives in Modern Strategies of Ethnic Consolidation: The Crimean Tatar Case.- 5: Corruption, Crisis, and Change: Use and Misuse of an Empty Signifier.- 6: Gender-role Scenarios of Women's Participation in Euromaidan Protests in Ukraine.- 7: Memory, War and Mnemonical In/Security: A Comparison of Lithuania and Ukraine.- 8: Framing of Crimean Annexation and Eastern Ukraine Conflict in Newspapers of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in 2014.- 9: “Crisis” and Crimean Tatars: Discourses of Self-Determination in Flux.- 10: The Self/Other Space and Spinning the Net of Ontological Insecurities in Ukraine and beyond: (Discursive) Reconstructions of Boundaries in the EU Eastern Partnership Countries vis-à-vis the EU and Russia.