The Ukrainian Crisis

Tracey German is a Reader in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London, UK. Her research focuses on Russia's relations with its neighbours, and conflict and security in the Caucasus and Caspian region.?Publications include?Regional Cooperation in the South Caucasus: Good Neighbours or Distant Relatives? (2012) and?Russia's Chechen War?(2003), as well as articles in journals such as?International Affairs, Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, European Security, Europe-Asia Studies, Central Asian Survey, Vestnik analitiki?and?Politique étrangère.??Emmanuel Karagiannis is a Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London, UK. He has written extensively on Russian foreign policy, ethnic conflicts in the ex-USSR, and political Islam in Central Asia. His articles have appeared in, among others, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Small Wars and Insurgencies,?Contemporary Security Policy, Asian Security, European Security, Mediterranean Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, Nationalities Papers, Central Asian Survey, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.