Ferenc Laczó is a political and intellectual historian, an assistant professor with tenure at the History Department of Maastricht University, and an editor of the Review of Democracy (CEU Democracy Institute). He has studied and held fellowships in Berlin, Bielefeld, Budapest, Los Angeles, New York City, Utrecht, Vienna and Washington, DC. He received his PhD from the Central European University in 2011. His writings have appeared in fifteen languages and his books have been reviewed in over fifty publications.
Stories
Shouldn’t Ukraine Negotiate with Putin?—Robert Person on Obstacles to a Negotiated Ending of Russia’s Ongoing War of Aggression
In the newest episode of a podcast in cooperation with the Journal of Democracy, Robert Person—Professor of International Relations at the United States Military Academy, West Point—discusses key issues that in his understanding pose nearly insurmountable obstacles to a negotiated ending of…
Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Question of Genocide: An Interview with Diana Dumitru
In this conversation at Visible Ukraine and Review of Democracy, Diana Dumitru—co-editor, with Dirk Moses, of the new collection The Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Victims, Perpetrators, Justice, and the Question of Genocide—discusses the motives of various Russian perpetrators in Ukraine…
How Ukraine Has Won Its War of Independence Without Restoring Its Territorial Integrity
In this conversation with RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó, Yaroslav Trofimov—author of the new book Our Enemies Will Vanish. The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence—shows how Ukraine has turned out to be much stronger than hoped whereas Russia has…
Ukrainians Started as the Scots and Ended Up as the Irish
In this conversation with Visible Ukraine editor Marta Haiduchok and RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó, Yaroslav Hrytsak—author of the new book Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation—explains what makes Ukraine a geopolitically crucial borderland and why the Ukrainian question has become…
A Savage War of Russian Decline
In this conversation co-hosted by Marta Haiduchok (Visible Ukraine) and Ferenc Laczó (the Review of Democracy), Serhii Plokhy – author of the new book The Russo-Ukrainian War – discusses why Ukraine was so crucial to the Soviet collapse and how…