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Mikhail Troitskiy

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Professor of Practice

Affiliation

Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Links Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Expertise

International Security, Negotiation Theory, Russian Foreign Policy, Russia’s Relations with Neighboring States, Relations with EU and the US

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Negotiating Security with Autocracies: Implications for the Russo-Ukrainian War

Image license/credit The ongoing war against Ukraine has cast into relief the dilemma of choosing between an imperfect peace, on the one hand, and continued fighting in pursuit of a…

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A Final Reckoning? Sino-Russian Relations Amid Russia’s War on Ukraine

As Russia’s war in Ukraine raged last year, Russia and China were getting closer in trade and diplomacy. China’s trade turnover with Russia reached new highs, and China became one…

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Smoke & Mirrors: How Domestic Regime Concerns Made Strategic Stability Meaningless and Why It Still Matters Nevertheless

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) One of the catchphrases employed by U.S. and Russian officials during negotiations, “strategic stability,” is presented by them as a key shared objective that could form…

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Statecraft in U.S.-Russia Relations: Meaning, Dilemmas, and Significance

(International Trends) The article introduces the special issue of International Trends dedicated to the current tendencies in the evolution of statecraft. It sets the analytical agenda for other special issue…

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The Next Clash of Ideas?

(CIRSD) At the start of the 2020s, domestic political debates within democratic societies are heating up and at times radicalizing. The middle ground in such debates has been waning for…

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Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield

(Problems of Post-Communism) The sudden onset of COVID-19 has challenged many social scientists to proceed without a robust theoretical and empirical foundation upon which to build. Addressing this challenge, particularly…

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Statecraft Overachievement: Sources of Scares in U.S.-Russian Relations

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Actors in world politics often claim positions in the global pecking order on the basis of their ability to achieve desired outcomes in major areas of interest.…

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