1) Introduction

2) John J. Mearsheimer, The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine War, 6 June 2022, Robert Schumann Centre of EUI (available at YouTube). (See also Why is Ukraine the West’s Fault, University of Chicago, May 29, 2015, YouTube).

3) M. E. Sarotte, America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate, Yale University Press, New Haven 2021, Introduction.

4) Ibid. Chapter 6: Rise and Fall

5) Ibid. Conclusion: The New Times

6) Zbigniew Brzezinski, Premature Partnership, 1994, Foreign Affairs March/April 1994 (available on the web)

7) Serhii Plokhy, Lost Kingdom. The Quest of Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation. From 1470 to the Present, Basic Books, New York 2017, Part III, The Tripartite Nation

8) Ibid. Part V, The Unbreakable Union.

9) Ibid. Part VI, The New Russia

10) The War in Ukraine & the Future of the World - Yuval Noah Harari & Timothy Snyder, 3/8/2022 (YouTube) and Timothy Snyder, Ukraine Holds the Future: The War Between Democracy and Nihilism, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2022, Ukraine Holds the Future: The War Between Democracy and Nihilism (foreignaffairs.com)

11) Timothy Snyder, The Road to Freedom. Russia, Europe, America, Tim Duggan Books, New York 2018, Chapter 1, Individualism or Totalitarianism

12) Ibid. Chapter 2, Succession or Failure

13) Ibid. Chapter 3.