PONARS Fall Policy Conference 2024
The PONARS Annual Policy Conference convenes international experts from North America, Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia for a series of panel discussions. This year’s event offers insight from leading scholars and…
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Connective Action Against Domestic Violence in Qazaqstan
Image credit/license On May 13, 2024, Astana Specialized Interdistrict Court for Criminal Cases sentenced the former Minister of Economy Kuandyk Bishimbayev to 24 years in prison for murdering his wife,…
Governance Trends: Embattled Judiciaries and Political Competition in Eurasia
Join us for a panel on governance trends in Eurasia featuring top experts from PONARS Eurasia. Featuring: Julie George (Queens College) Ivan Gomza (Kyiv School of Economics) Margarita Zavadskaya (European…
From “Greater Europe” to “Greater Eurasia”: Status concerns and the evolution of Russia’s approach to alignment and regional integration
(Journal of Eurasian Studies) Russia’s approach to alignment and regional integration has evolved dramatically—from a focus on the West and disinterest and neglect of regional integration in the 1990s, to…
Video Surveillance and COVID-19 in Eurasia
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) To enforce quarantine measures, some Eurasian cities are relying on smart surveillance technologies initially installed a few years ago to capture criminal and disorderly behavior. Moscow, Nur-Sultan,…
Chinese Artificial Intelligence Projects Expand in Eurasian Cities
(PONARS Policy Memo) As a global leader in developing and using surveillance technologies, China is exporting its high-tech brand of authoritarianism to its neighbors in Eurasia. Chinese firms have been…
What is Eurasia to US (the U.S.)?
(Journal of Eurasian Studies) Abstract: This article examines U.S. policy toward the supercontinent of Eurasia from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the present. The baseline for U.S. policy was…
Observing Autocracies from the Ground Floor [Special Issue of Social Science Quarterly]
(J. Paul Goode and Ariel I. Ahram, eds.) This special issue explores qualitative field work methods for observing and studying authoritarian regimes. Studying authoritarian regimes can be a difficult and dangerous task,…
How Washington Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Eurasian Integration
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Regional integration is a core element of Washington’s vision for post-conflict Afghanistan. Captured by the metaphor of a New Silk Road (NSR), the U.S. has long sought…
Look Beyond the Capital: The Geography of Political Openings in Eurasia
In the last decade and a half, the ousters of numerous national leaders and mass street protests in Eurasian and Middle Eastern capitals have taken scholars and policymakers by surprise. Political…