Kremlin Fails to See Anger and Anxiety Rising in Russia
(EDM) The Russian authorities are caught in a familiar dilemma of whether to resume economic activity or contain the coronavirus pandemic and, trying to have it both ways, are blundering the…
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Designating the Russian Imperial Movement a Terrorist Organization: a Drop in the Bucket of Needed U.S. Counter-Extremism Responses
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) On April 6, 2020, the U.S. State Department designated the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) as a terrorist organization and placed its leaders on its list of…
Fears of Falling Short versus Anxieties of Decline: Explaining Russia and China’s Approach to Status-Seeking
(The Chinese Journal of International Politics) Abstract: Although recent scholarship has advanced our understanding of status, little attention has been paid to the factors that shape states’ status-seeking behaviour. Consequently, existing theories…
Russia and Collective Security: Why CSTO Is No Match for Warsaw Pact
(Russia Matters) This month 65 years ago, the Soviet Union announced the formation of the Warsaw Pact. For the next three and a half decades, the pact remained the security alliance of the…
The 2018 World Cup in Russia and Its Regimes of Visibility: The Cases of Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan
(Journal of Sport and Social Issues) Abstract: The article addresses visualizations of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russian and international digital media. Drawing on the scholarship on discoursive hegemony, the…
Reform and Rebellion in Weak States
NEW BOOK! Throughout history, reform has provoked rebellion – not just by the losers from reform, but also among its intended beneficiaries. Finkel and Gehlbach emphasize that, especially in weak…
The Russian coronavirus test
(Riddle) The global COVID-19 pandemic has become a stress test for all countries. It clearly exposes both their strengths and weaknesses. For many, including developed countries, the condition of the national…
Sonin: The entire Russian system is based on supporting Russian big state business
(Politico) A few days ago, six weeks into Moscow’s coronavirus lockdown, I was shopping at a local supermarket when the man behind me at the checkout counter started pushing into me.…
Distorted Data and Fanciful Beliefs Inform Russia’s Crisis Mismanagement
(EDM) Russia is rightfully held responsible for and often caught red-handed spreading disinformation around the globe; but its own policymaking is, in fact, informed by similarly false assessments, which are “improved”…
Covid-19 in Russia (and not only)
(Wilson Center) “In a conversation with Samuel Greene, director of King’s Russia Institute, the Russia File discusses the Kremlin’s COVID-19 politics and Russian society’s newfound empowerment.” The Wilson Center (Soundcloud)…