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The present volume somewhat departs from the usual format of SPPS volumes in that most of the well-informed texts published in this collection constitute revealing individual testimonies rather than traditional research papers. Many of the authors assembled here by Oxana Schmies have themselves participated, to one degree or another, in the shaping of post-Soviet East European geopolitics. Some academics provide their policy reflections and opinion pieces on burning issues in Russian-Western relations instead of conventional hypothesis testing, process tracing, or theory building.

The volume is both, a unique documentary anthology on recent historical events and a significant intervention into an ongoing heated public debate in Europe and North America. The book was explicitly designed to reach a larger readership beyond the Ivory Tower. It should be of interest to an academic audience in view of the disputational or/and witness character of some of its statements. But its deliberations and recommendations should also be relevant to potential readers active in politics, diplomacy, journalism, as well as various governmental and non-governmental organizations.

A.U., Kyiv, March 2021