Russia’s Foreign Military Basing Strategy
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In December 2020, news broke that Russia had signed an agreement with Sudan to build a naval base on the Red Sea. Given the refurbishment of…
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How the “Escalation Strategy” Evolved in Russia’s Security Policy
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The “escalation strategy” has been a constant element in Russia’s international behavior for the last twenty years. Stemming from the well-known “escalation for de-escalation” principle that…
Forever Together? Relations Between Moscow and Minsk After the Belarusian Revolution of 2020
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The Belarusian Revolution was a stress test for Belarus-Russia relations. The domestic political crisis that followed the rigged presidential elections of 2020 weakened the Minsk regime…
Why Russia Is Unlikely to Use Zapad-2021 to Intervene Militarily in European Countries
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The last time Russia and Belarus teamed up to hold a large-scale strategic command-and-staff military exercise, a number of international media outlets pondered whether it might…
Karabakh After the 44-Day War: Russian Peacekeepers and Patterns
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) After the September-November war of 2020, Azerbaijan liberated its seven occupied territories and established rule over Karabakh. A significant share of that region went under the…
Expectations for Russia’s September Parliamentary Elections
PONARS Eurasia Commentary by Maria Lipman and Nikolay Petrov with Vladimir Gel’man, Grigorii Golosov, Ben Noble, Gleb Pavlovsky, Andrey Pertsev, Ekaterina Schulmann, and Denis Volkov. Although the experts interviewed here…
Perestroika and New Thinking: A Retrospective
(Demokratizatsiya) Excerpt: More than three and a half decades have passed since the start of the process of change in the Soviet Union known throughout the world as perestroika. The…
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in a Global South Perspective
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War beginning on September 27, 2020, and terminating on November 10 due to a fourth, Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement, resulted in a historic sea-change…
Russia’s Counterterrorism Policy | PONARS Eurasia Online Academy
In this Online Academy video authored by Mariya Omelicheva, professor at the National War College, National Defense University, Russia’s historical and current counterterrorism strategies are explored and explained. Topics include…
To Tango With the Bear: Turkey-Russia Relations ın a Turbulent Regıon
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Turkey and Russia have had a Janus-faced relationship in the post-Cold war era. While economic relations propelled by increasing energy ties have created a cooperative setting…