# Alexander Etkind

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Alexander Etkind spotlights the asymmetrical sacrifice & oil curse at the core of the War in Ukraine

Alexander Etkind joined the Department of International Relations at Central European University in 2022. He previously taught at the European University Institute in Florence, and at several other institutions. His research looks at the extreme challenges of global decarbonization and security in …

Alexander Etkind - Putin is Propelling Russia Backwards in a Self-Destructive Civilisational Decline

Russia is tearing itself away from modern civilization and its associated values, norms and comforts. Putin and his coterie of incompetent sycophants seem to be happily destroying the foundations of everything that has been built in the past 30 years. Instead, he’s embracing an alternative futu…

201. Alexander Etkind - Does Russia Know where its Borders Lie? Will the Imperial Obsession Destroy it?

Much of Russian history was shaped by the “imperial experience”. Alexander Etkind suggests the process was a simultaneous of internal colonization as well as the more obvious external one. The characteristic phenomena of colonialism, such as missionary work, exotic journeys, and ethnographic sc…

S2 E10 Russia Against Modernity with Alexander Etkind

Welcome to the Peaceful Political Revolution in America Podcast The Anthropocene will be a doozy from what I'm hearing. Even if new technologies and new systems replace the ones currently falling apart, it will be a bumpy ride. It looks as if severe climate-related events will be occurring much mo…

Russian Disregard about Climate Change, with Alexander Etkind

In this conversation, Alexander Etkind sets out the reasons why environmental challenges are largely ignored in Russia, by public authorities and more generally by society. If this is largely explained by the weight of fossil fuels in Russia's income, there are other factors to take into account, s…

Alexander Etkind – Nature’s Evil

Alexander Etkind, Professor of History of Russia-Europe Relations at the European University Institute (Italy), presented his book Nature’s Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources (Wiley, 2021) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 24 January 2022. This bo…

419. Alexander Etkind - Curse of the Petrostate - What is Connection Between Oil, War, and Climate Crisis

What is the connection between oil, war, and climate crisis? In a long article “Oil, climate and war: The curse of the petrostate”, Alexander Etkind explores the tendency of authoritarian petrostates, such as Russia and Iran, to launch wars and downplay climate change. ---------- SPEAKER: Alex…

Standing Up To The Assault On Democracy with Alexander Etkind

In this seventh episode of our series Standing Up To The Assault On Democracy moderated by 4 international scholars and experts, Tali Nates founder and Executive Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre, Adrea Pető from the Central European university, Bjorn Krondofer Director of …

At the Intersection of Art and Agriculture

In this third episode of the Art, Science Ecology podcast recorded in March 2025 IHME Helsinki’s Advisory Board member Maria Lind, Museum Director of the Kin Museum of Contemporary Art in Kiruna, will discuss art and agriculture with the Kultivator collective. Kultivator is an independent art prac…

Russia is doomed

Putin thought his war on Ukraine would restore Russia to greatness in just ten days. Instead, after four and a half years of futile slaughter and almost half a million Russian soldiers killed, the unthinkable seems to be coming true. Could Russia lose in Ukraine? Could Putin go down with it? And co…