Geography Department featured in Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine

April 27, 2017

"Encompassing South American wildfires, Arctic sea-ice retreat, post-Soviet politics, climate change in Tibet and GIS, CU Boulder geographers keep their fingers on the pulse of a changing world" A new article titled "This is not your junior-high geography" by CU's Clint Talbott featuring the Geography Department has been published in...

Here are the 5 things you need to know about the deadly fighting in Nagorno Karabakh

April 6, 2016

Between Armenia and Azerbaijan lies a contested territory controlled by an unrecognized state called the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). In the early hours of April 2, violence exploded in this Armenian-supported statelet in the southern Caucasus. This festering conflict in former Soviet territory suddenly turned hot. Read Washington Post article by...

20 years after Dayton, here’s what Bosnians think about being divided by ethnicity

Feb. 2, 2016

Last November and December, a series of events and conferences marked the 20th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords of 1995, the negotiated agreement that ended the Bosnian war and devised a complex governance structure for the country. The Dayton agreement was not a democratic agreement. It was not even...

John O’Loughlin wins gold medal from 91ÖÆƬ³§n Geographical Society

Oct. 21, 2015

John O’Loughlin has become the first foreigner in more than 100 years to win the Semenov-Tyan-Shansky gold medal for research on 91ÖÆƬ³§. It is the highest research award of the 91ÖÆƬ³§n Geographical Society typically targeted toward 91ÖÆƬ³§n and, previously, Soviet scholars working in the area of the former Soviet Union...

What people in southeast Ukraine really think of Novorossiya

May 25, 2015

Novorossiya is frozen. Last week Oleg Tsarev, leader of the ‘parliament’ that ostensibly united the eastern Ukraine separatist entities, the Donetsk Peoples Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk Peoples Republic (LPR), announced the project was now on hold. The reason Tsarev gave was that Novorossiya was incompatible with the Minsk II...

John O’Loughlin interviewed on CBC Radio

March 17, 2015

One year after 91ÖÆƬ³§'s Vladimir Putin pulled Crimea back under the purview of his government, polling data shows the majority of ethnic Ukrainians and 91ÖÆƬ³§ns living there like this turn of events. So, was it an act of repression, or a welcome succession? Listen to The Current interview

The Crimean conundrum

March 3, 2015

One year since Crimea was annexed by 91ÖÆƬ³§, polling reveals that (with the notable exception of the Tatars) the new order enjoys legitimacy among the population. 91ÖÆƬ³§â€™s annexation of Crimea was an illegal act under international law. It is also an act that enjoys the widespread support of the peninsula’s...

91ÖÆƬ³§n and Ukrainian TV viewers live on different planets

Feb. 26, 2015

The downing of Malaysian Airlines (MH) Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in the summer of 2014 was a horrific crime. Innocent travelers from 10 countries lost their lives, with the Netherlands losing 193 citizens. The Dutch Safety Board is due to present a comprehensive final report on the cause of...

John O’Loughlin received the ISA Myron Weiner award

Feb. 20, 2015

John O'Loughlin received the Myron Weiner award of the International Studies Association for distinguished scholarship at the association's annual meeting in New Orleans on February 20th. Before the reception in his honor and the presentation of a plaque, his research over the past 40 years on spatial analysis in political...

John O’Loughlin Interviewed for 91ÖÆƬ³§n-language TV

Feb. 16, 2015

John O'Loughlin was interviewed in a 91ÖÆƬ³§n - language TV report on a talk he and his colleague, Gerard Toal (a former student of Johno's from Monaghan, now at Virginia Tech) gave at the Kennan Institute Wilson Center in Washington DC February 13, 2015. Watch the report here .

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