Language Games for Export: Russia’s Narratives on Europe and in Europe
Many in Europe continue to think that certain people or groups within the Russian ruling regime are eager to cooperate and have an understanding of the dangers of the current…
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How to Strengthen Western Engagement in Central Asia: Spotlight on EU Education Assistance in Uzbekistan
(PONARS Policy Memo) The European Union’s 2007 Strategy for Central Asia identified education as a key area of cooperation. To this end, the EU launched programs to initiate and encourage fundamental…
How the West Should Respond to Russia’s “Borderization” in Georgia
(PONARS Policy Memo) Russia’s swift achievement of its political objectives in Crimea while firing hardly a shot generated much debate about the use and effectiveness of “hybrid warfare.” Although the term…
How the US and EU Can Make the Kremlin Rethink Its Options in Ukraine’s Donbas
(PONARS Policy Memo) Before Donald Trump’s ascension to power, Washington, Berlin, and Paris were essentially on the same policy page toward pacifying the conflict in Donbas. The broad aim was to…
Europe in Crisis: “Old,” “New,” or Incomplete?
(PONARS Policy Memo) In this policy memo, we bring together the results of our recently published research to shed some light on how the idea of Europe has been contested in…
Incomplete Hegemonies, Hybrid Neighbours: Identity games and policy tools in Eastern Partnership countries
(CEPS) This paper applies the concepts of hegemony and hybridity as analytical tools to help understand the structural changes taking place within the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries and beyond. The…
Redefining Europe: Russia and the 2015 Refugee Crisis
(Geopolitics) Abstract: This article uses approaches embedded in practical and popular geopolitics for analysing how Russia capitalizes on the refugee crisis to redefine Europe. Two of Russia’s European policies are at…
Eurasian Family versus European Values: The Geopolitical Roots of “Anti-Genderism” in Armenia
(PONARS Policy Memo) Since late 2012, the terms “gender” and “gender equality” in the Armenian discursive space have become enveloped in undertones of tremendous negativity and even used as insults. The…
President Trump’s Warsaw Speech: A Window into a Trump Doctrine?
Donald Trump has been the president of the United States for half a year. Over this time, observers have been trying to see through the cloud of his often controversial…
Information Wars and Its Victims: Biased Facts, Incomplete Truth [Four Signs of Disinformation]
For some time, analysts, think tankers, and journalists prevailed in the domain of “post-truth” and “alternative facts.” It is only recently that academics plugged into the debate. The World Congress…