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The Spatiality of War and Challenges in Restoring Ukraine’s Economy

With well over a year of large-scale and highly destructive warfare already passed, Ukraine has embarked on an ambitious effort to restore and enhance its economic potential, even amid the…

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A Final Reckoning? Sino-Russian Relations Amid Russia’s War on Ukraine

As Russia’s war in Ukraine raged last year, Russia and China were getting closer in trade and diplomacy. China’s trade turnover with Russia reached new highs, and China became one…

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Russia

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is on a rising trajectory. At the 2022 Samarkand Summit, Iran officially signed a memorandum of obligation to join as a full-fledged member. For the…

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Tbilisi’s Transactional Foreign Policy Leads Georgians Astray

Conventional wisdom holds that small states in hostile environments have minimal menus of foreign policy options. This theory is being tested in the countries wedged between Russia and the EU/NATO…

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Ukraine, Taiwan, and Macron’s “Strategic Autonomy”

PONARS Eurasia Commentary | In Europe, one now wonders whether President Emmanuel Macron and his “strategic autonomy” proposal caused damage to the political and military cohesion of the West on…

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Russia’s Administrators: The Weakest Link in a Crisis

The evolution of the Russian political system in the past 20 years was guided by several priorities that had a lasting impact on who we see as public officials at…

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After Violence: Russia’s Beslan School Massacre and the Peace that Followed

NEW BOOK | Starting on September 1, 2004, and ending 53 hours later, Russia experienced its most appalling act of terrorism in history, the seizure of School No. 1 in…

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Ukrainians and Russians Are Not One People—But Perhaps Not for the Reasons You Think

At the Valdai conference in October 2022, President Vladimir Putin once again claimed that “Ukrainians and Russians are one people.” This preposterous claim that he has repeated on numerous occasions…

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Russian Protests Following the Invasion of Ukraine

Did the full-scale invasion of Ukraine upend protest mobilization in Russia? When and where did Russians take to the streets to express support and opposition to the war? And did…

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Consolidating Values to Consolidate Power in Russia

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin and regime supporters frequently reference the need to defend Russia’s cultural and spiritual existence. Putin has portrayed this conflict in holy war…

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