What’s next for Russian foreign policy?
(ELN) As of late autumn 2016, Russian foreign policy continues to be focused on enhancing Russia's status as a great power. Moscow is looking for opportunities to convert its growing military…
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Smyth: “The state of Russian Studies is ascendant…” [AUDIO]
(NPR/WBUR) "Russian studies used to be a much more robust field in the United States compared to today. Interest took a sharp decline after the collapse of the Soviet Union…
The Need to Massage Egos: Status Politics as a Crucial Element of US-Russia Relations
(PONARS Policy Memo) Despite multiple official declarations of non-adversarial intentions issued by the United States and Russia over the past quarter-century, both sides have been unable to avoid repeated bouts…
Post-imperial democracies and new projects of nationhood in Eurasia
(Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies). This article argues that Russia and Turkey radically reframed their projects of nation-building around the turn of the twenty-first century, and the migration patterns…
Putin Casts Shadow Over US Presidential Campaign
(EDM) One striking feature of this year’s United States presidential election campaign has been the invisible but remarkably persistent background presence of Russia and its leader, President Vladimir Putin. Putin…
Trump helps Putin — and all dictators — when he calls U.S. elections ‘rigged.’
(WP) (Co-authored with K. Sonin) Donald Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin’s leadership, suggested that he would recognize Putin’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, and questioned the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Russia…
Hale: Leaked emails can give Russia’s leaders ‘evidence’ to their population that democratization won’t solve their problems
(CBC) Maybe he's a puppet, maybe she's a puppet, maybe this whole dang system is a puppet. One way or another, experts say, if Vladimir Putin is indeed pulling the strings in this…
Turkey and Russia, Erdoğan and Putin
(PONARS Policy Memo) By the summer of 2016, it had become relatively commonplace in Western policy circles to wonder if Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was following in the footsteps…
Russia-India arms deal
(RMR) Russia and India signed a major arms deal on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Goa this past weekend. The deal included four major components. First, India becomes the…
Russia’s Use of Military Force as a Foreign Policy Tool: Is There a Logic?
(PONARS Policy Memo) Russia has used its military beyond its borders with unprecedented frequency in the period since the invasion of Crimea in February 2014. Depending on how one counts,…