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New Memo: New Silk Route or Classic Developmental Cul-de-Sac? The Prospects/Challenges of China’s OBOR

In September 2013, at a speech at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Chinese Premier Xi Jinping announced plans to promote a “Silk Road Economic Belt” across neighboring Eurasian states. Over the…

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New Silk Route or Classic Developmental Cul-de-Sac? The Prospects and Challenges of China’s OBOR Initiative

In September 2013, at a speech at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Chinese Premier Xi Jinping announced plans to promote a “Silk Road Economic Belt” across neighboring Eurasian states. Over the…

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Orttung: Crimean corruption and mismanagement out of control

(Bloomberg) President Vladimir Putin likened Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea to a family welcoming home a long-lost relative. Now the family is showing signs of strain. Russia’s federal security service,…

Lessons (Half) Learned: Comparing the 1998 and 2014 Ruble Crises

"Reforms begin when the money runs out." – Sberbank president German Gref, May 2015 In December 2014, Russia experienced the most significant drop in the ruble’s value since the financial…

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New Policy Memo: From “Hybrid War” to “Hybrid Peace”: One More “Frozen Conflict?”

(Co-author: Petro Burkovsky) Since the Minsk II negotiations of February 2015, Ukraine and the Euro-Atlantic community have leaned toward freezing the conflict in the Donbas as a possible “exit strategy” and…

From “Hybrid War” to “Hybrid Peace”: One More “Frozen Conflict”?

Since the Minsk II negotiations of February 2015, Ukraine and the Euro-Atlantic community have leaned toward freezing the conflict in the Donbas as a possible “exit strategy” and way to…

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The Air Tragedy That Condemned Putin’s Russia

(EDM) It was a year ago last Friday (July 17) that the Boeing 777 Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down by a missile…

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New Policy Memo: Why Central Asia is More Stable than Eastern Europe: The Domestic Impact of Geopolitics

In the early 1990s, scholars, journalists, and political observers predicted that the new Central Asian states would descend into chaos and break apart. More than 20 years later, Central Asia’s…

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Gorenburg: By 2014, Ukraine’s combat-ready force was a mere 6,000

(Miami Herald) Days after Russia took over Crimea last year, Ukrainian teenager “Maley” contacted his local army recruitment office to sign up. His calls went unanswered for weeks, so he…

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Baev: Most valuable Russian contribution to Iran deal was refraining from role of spoiler

(Voice of America) President Barack Obama said Russia was a "help" in securing the deal to limit Iran's nuclear program. In addition to that praise, printed in the New York…

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New Memo: New Silk Route or Classic Developmental Cul-de-Sac? The Prospects/Challenges of China’s OBOR

New Silk Route or Classic Developmental Cul-de-Sac? The Prospects and Challenges of China’s OBOR Initiative

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