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		<title>In Ukraine: Building Civic Life Amid War</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34177</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this episode of The Stakes, host Brad Rourke speaks with Kettering Foundation Senior Fellow and retired Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O&#8217;Connor and Kettering board member and Tufts professor Peter Levine. They reflect on their recent experiences helping to build democracy and civil society in Ukraine&#8212;O&#8217;Connor working to vet candidates for the embattled Constitutional Court, [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34177">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>teaching Civic Studies in Kyiv</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 13:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This reflection is originally published on From Many, We&#160;the Charles F. Kettering Foundation blog series that highlights the insights of thought leaders dedicated to the idea of inclusive democracy. I went to Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2&#8211;7, 2025, to offer a short course on Civic Studies at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE). I wanted to [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34154">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>from Ukraine (2): a video on happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made this video in my hotel room in Kyiv last night. I was preparing for the public lecture on the subject of &#8220;happiness&#8221; that I will give tomorrow. For reasons that I mention at the start of the video, I am a bit anxious about this lecture, and I was rehearsing. However, my conversations [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34115">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>from Ukraine (1)</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34102</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am aboard a train from Warsaw to Kyiv, well into Ukrainian territory now. I hope to write something of substance about my week in this country, but my main reflections should wait until I have listened and learned and found the right voice. I don&#8217;t want to pretend to any real knowledge based on [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34102">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>decentralization and civic capacity in Ukraine</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=30087</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 15:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[civic theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democratic reform overseas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new paper by&#160;Arends, Brik,&#160;Herrmann and&#160;Roesel (2023) shows that a bottom-up decentralization reform that began in Ukraine in 2014 increased trust in local government. I suggest that it may have built civic capacity that has also proven valuable in the war. <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=30087">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>a Ukraine War timeline</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=28498</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2023 13:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have no expertise or personal experience in military affairs and a shallow knowledge of Eastern Europe, but I have been following the Ukraine war avidly on a daily basis. This summary might have some value for those who are following matters less closely than I&#8211;as long as you remember the caveats about my amateurishness. [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=28498">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>toward a new equilibrium in Russia?</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=28242</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2023 15:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anna Colin Lebedev (University of Paris-Nanterre) recently wrote a 30-tweet thread about current Russian opinion that I found illuminating. She discounts the value of surveys because they make two assumptions that do not apply in Russia (if anywhere): there is a correlation between discontent as measured by polls and explicit acts of resistance, and leaders [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=28242">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>possible paths for the Ukraine war</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=27508</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 18:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia regains momentum and expands its control of Ukrainian territory. Today, most non-Russian military experts discount this possibility, but war is unpredictable. Ukraine would certainly not give up, but it would experience rising external pressure to surrender some territory permanently. Russia holds a static defensive line, probably set back from the current front. (For instance, [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=27508">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>an existential threat?</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=27364</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Mearsheimer made the case against Ukraine on a well-attended panel discussion at the American Political Science Association. I don&#8217;t agree with those who disapprove of giving him a platform. If he&#8217;s wrong, his views should be aired so they can be rebutted, and I think that&#8217;s what happened when my Tufts colleague Oxana Shevel [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=27364">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>civic education in Russia</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=27191</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2022 16:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[advocating civic education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Russian Education Ministry recently unveiled new curricular units for grades 1-11 under the label of &#8220;Talking About What is Important: Our Country is Russia.&#8221; I learned about the curriculum from this article in Meduza, but the magic of Google Translate allowed me to read the whole thing in English. It&#8217;s fascinating as a window [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=27191">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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