Approaches to State- and Nation-Building in Russia’s Ukraine Policy

A characteristic picture of Western media evaluations of Russian foreign policy toward Ukraine (and the post-Soviet space more generally) can be discerned in the questions of French journalists to Russian…

How Immigration Aids Russia’s Transformation into an Assimilationist Nation-State

Immigration is often discussed in the framework of political economy and security studies. When discussed in the context of national identity, immigration is invariably depicted as a “challenge” or an…

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Putin’s Whack-a-Mole Game Extends to NATO

(Huffington Post/Berggruen Institute) On Friday, Russia's Federal Security Service (the FSB) kidnapped an Estonian intelligence officer at gunpoint, using a smoke bomb and jamming Estonian radio communications. Moscow later claimed…

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Two Guys Discussing Russia: What’s the Legacy of the Sochi Olympics?

(Video Series) Russian politics is increasingly unpredictable. In order to help clarify the issues, Robert Orttung and Sufian Zhemukhov have launched a new talk show called “Two Guys Discussing Russia…

Countering Color Revolutions: Russia’s New Security Strategy and its Implications for U.S. Policy

The May 2014 Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS), sponsored by the Russian Ministry of Defense, was focused on the role of popular protest, and specifically color revolutions, in international…

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Remember the Mutual Commitments of the Russia-NATO Partnership?

On the eve of the forthcoming NATO summit in Wales, some members of the Alliance are eager to raise the issue of changing—if not completely denouncing—the NATO-Russia Founding Treaty of…

The Troubled Rebirth of Political Opposition in Russia

In the 2000s, most experts considered the role of political opposition in Russia as peripheral at best. But with the protest wave of 2011-12, opposition actors and movements reentered the…

Russian Foreign Policy: Traditional Vectors in a New Geopolitical Situation

The Ukraine crisis is transforming the global geopolitical order. It is eliciting new controversies and clarifying existing ones. It is also intensifying efforts to accelerate integration processes in both the…

Natural Gas and the Ukraine Crisis: From Realpolitik to Network Diplomacy

The current crisis in Ukraine has again foisted natural gas diplomacy to the fore of great power politics. Many view the gas weapon as Moscow’s continuing trump card for coercing…

Upgrading Russia’s Quasi-Strategic Pseudo-Partnership with China

The fast-evolving Ukraine crisis has involved such high stakes and demanded so much attention from Russia’s leadership that it has become the decisive force shaping the country’s future. It has…

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