Borders in the Baltic Sea Region: Suturing the Ruptures [NEW BOOK]

(Co-editors: A. Makarychev and A. Yatsyk) This book focuses on the recent political trajectories within the Baltic Sea Region from one of the success stories of regionalism in Europe to a potential area…

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Russia’s Little War in Ukraine Does Not Help Kremlin to Befriend Trump

(EDM) The sharp escalation in artillery battles in the Donbas (eastern Ukraine) war zone one day after the January 28 telephone conversation between United States President Donald Trump and Russian President…

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Russia–EU Borderlands after the Ukraine Crisis: The Case of Narva

(Book chapter) (Co-author: A. Makarychev) Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the military insurgency in Ukraine’s eastern provinces triggered political and academic debates on various issues related to post-Soviet borderlands, above…

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Biopower and geopolitics as Russia’s neighborhood strategies: reconnecting people or reaggregating lands?

(Nationalities Papers) (Co-author: A. Yatsyk) In this article, we address geopolitics and biopower as two different yet mutually correlative discursive strategies of sovereign power in Russia. We challenge the dominant…

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Nation Building, Political Boundaries, and Cultural Authenticity: Post-Soviet Borderlands in Transformation

(Cambridge Scholars Publishing) (Co-author: A. Makarychev) This article analyzes today’s independent ex-Soviet borderlands (Ukraine, Georgia, and Estonia) of the Russian Federation. More precisely, the authors identify the cultural and social practices…

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Celebrating Borderlands in a Wider Europe: Nations and Identities in Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia

(Nomos) (Co-author: A. Yatsyk) This book addresses Estonian, Ukrainian and Georgian identities which have developed against the backdrop of Russia’s neo-imperialist policies and the EU’s normative projection of power. With…

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Russia and China: A New Model of Great-Power Relations

(IISS) The Ukraine crisis and the downturn in Russia–West relations that came in its wake have compelled Russia to turn decisively towards China. Deprived of other options, Moscow has found…

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Haran: Putin is trying to intimidate both the US and Europe by escalating the Ukraine conflict

(Al Jazeera) In the past week, eastern Ukraine has suffered some of the heaviest fighting seen for a long time. Heavy artillery fire, a car bomb explosion and other ceasefire violations…

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Eurasia’s CSTO and SCO: A Failure to Address the Trafficking/Terrorism Nexus

(PONARS Policy Memo) The topic of collective responses to terrorism, extremism, and transnational organized crime has long dominated discussions within the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).…

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EU-Russia Relations: Quo Vadis? Muddling, Normalization, or Deterioration

(PONARS Policy Memo) The Ukraine crisis became a major driver of the centrifugal relationship between Russia and the European Union, but it was not the starting point. The relationship had been…

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