Paul Linden-Retek

Paul Linden-Retek is a J.D./Ph.D. candidate at Yale Law School and Yale University's Department of Political Science.

Why Crimea is not Kosovo, and why it matters

In his 18 March speech, Vladimir Putin cited the International Court of Justice 2010 opinion allowing Kosovo to declare independence as justification for Crimean separation. The cases are, however, very different.

By Paul Linden-Retek and Evan Brewer

/ 18 Mar 2014

Stronger Europe or democratic sovereignty? Yes please

In search of a new European politics, we must face the fact that we have skirted the political question of identity: how do we redraw the boundaries (symbolic and physical) dividing us so that we can re-democratize the European public space?

By Paul Linden-Retek

/ 12 Feb 2012