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This article surveys major publications concerning Ukraine by Canadian social scientists of the Cold War era. While the USSR existed, characterized by the uniformity of its political, economic, social, and cultural order, there was little incentive, apart from personal interest, for social scientists to specialize in their research on any of its component republics, including the Ukrainian SSR, and there was also no incentive to teach about them at universities. Hence there was a dearth of scholarly work on Soviet Ukraine from a social-scientific perspective. The exceptions, all but one of them émigrés—Jurij Borys, Bohdan Krawchenko, Bohdan R. Bociurkiw, Peter J. Potichnyj, Wsevolod Isajiw, and David Marples—were all the more notable. These authors, few as they were, laid the foundation for the study of post-1991 Ukraine, with major credit for disseminating their work going to the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) Press.

<p><strong>Jaci Eisenberg and Davide Rodogno, eds. <em>Ideas and Identities: A Festschrift for Andre Liebich.</em></strong><strong><em> </em></strong>Bern: Peter Lang AG, 2014. 269 pp. Illustration. Notes on Contributors. Tabula Gratulatoria. Paper. </p>

While the phrase "New Cold War" characterizing the confrontational relationship between Russia and the United States since the advent to power of Vladimir Putin in the year 2000 has become quite common, its validity is problematic. Does the term refer to a new version of the old Cold War, similar in its dynamics, but with distinctly updated features? Or does it indicate a revival of the Cold War? Solving the conundrum is hindered by the lack of agreement among scholars on the nature of the original Cold War (1948-1991). Realists, traditionalists, revisionists, post-revisionists, and world-systems theorists have offered numerous perspectives none of which can adequately explain the relationship between the superpower United States and its erstwhile rival. A change of leadership in both countries in 2008, and a focus on the reciprocity of the relationship provides a better understanding of the two states' inability to transcend the Cold War.

Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma: Russia, Europe, and
the United States, Mikhail A. Alexseev, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2006, pp. viii, 286.As a political scientist, are you tiring of the rational choice
approach? Is your research cramped by the requirements of political
correctness? Are you fed up with the securitization of practically all
forms of policy, including especially immigration? If so, then this is the
book for you.