History most certainly did not end

The crisis manufactured by Russia over Ukraine raises interesting questions about how the modern world is organized

Dan Perry in Ukraine, 1991

When should a country exist? How is it defined? What are its powers? Such questions resurface as the world observes with impotent jitters the crisis manufactured by Russia over Ukraine.

I was there, in cities like Czernowitz, Lvov and Kishinev, in the cool days of late summer 1991, when Ukraine and neighboring Moldova declared …