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Igor Lukes<\/a>, Professor of International Relations and History\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>at Boston University\u2019s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, was interviewed by\u00a0Al Jazeera\u00a0<\/em><\/a>on the United States<\/a>‘ ongoing and seemingly open-ended support for Ukraine<\/a> in its fight against Russia<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The article, titled “‘As long as it takes’: US aid to Ukraine sustainable, experts say<\/a>,” explores how the aid provided by the U.S. is necessary not only to back Ukrainians but to advance U.S. national interests. According to Lukes, ignoring the reality of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine only encourages the aggressor, Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a> to be specific. Additionally, Lukes notes that if Putin were to conquer Ukraine and get to its western borders, Russia would be “eyeball to eyeball” with several North Atlantic Treaty Organization<\/a> (NATO) countries, including Poland<\/a> and Romania<\/a>. While the conflict has certainly escalated in recent months, encroachment on a NATO ally would be incredibly risky as the alliance’s defense pact calls an attack on one member nation an attack on them all, which would truly make this a global war.<\/p>\n The full article can be read on Al Jazeera<\/em>‘s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Igor Lukes<\/a>\u00a0is a past winner of\u00a0the\u00a01997 Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2020 winner of the Gitner Prize for Faculty Excellence at the Pardee School. He<\/span>\u00a0writes primarily about Central Europe. His work has won the support of various other institutions, including Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the Woodrow Wilson Center, IREX, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read more about Professor Lukes on his\u00a0faculty profile<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Professor Lukes discusses the importance of ongoing U.S. aid to Ukraine, the debate around it in the U.S., as well as the implications of further Russian encroachment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17823,"featured_media":32457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[12043,8888,1169,9378,1172,8455,8511,9073,9527,9072],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56027,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56021\/revisions\/56027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}