US-Russia Relations: The Year of Living Dangerously
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The year 2021 drew to an end with alarming reports of a build-up of Russian ground forces on the borders of Ukraine and a flurry of…
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Smoke & Mirrors: How Domestic Regime Concerns Made Strategic Stability Meaningless and Why It Still Matters Nevertheless
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) One of the catchphrases employed by U.S. and Russian officials during negotiations, “strategic stability,” is presented by them as a key shared objective that could form…
Sanctions & War: Contending Western-Russian Approaches and Prospects for Strategic Stability
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) There is a conspicuous paradox between the rising frequency and intensity of U.S./EU-Russian sanctions and the mutual resignation about their ineffectiveness at achieving stated objectives. Notwithstanding…
Statecraft in U.S.-Russia Relations: Meaning, Dilemmas, and Significance
(International Trends) The article introduces the special issue of International Trends dedicated to the current tendencies in the evolution of statecraft. It sets the analytical agenda for other special issue…
The Economic Factors in U.S.-Russian Relations
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In recent years, discussions about the political economy of U.S.-Russian relations have mainly been reduced to talks on sanctions and their effectiveness. A raft of Western…
Expanding the Scope for Statecraft in U.S. Russia Policy
(War on the Rocks) The Biden administration has its sights set on a June summit with Russia. Given the new lows plowed in the bilateral relationship — so low that…
Russia’s Niche Soft Power: Sources, Targets and Channels of Influence
(Ifri) This paper argues that Russia’s soft power should be understood as a niche soft power, microtargeting some specific audiences based on four particularisms: Russia’s history and culture; its Soviet legacy;…
Two Words That Shook Putin’s Regime
(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The resonance in Russia from a short fragment of United States President Joseph Biden’s ABC News interview last Wednesday (March 17) has been extraordinarily loud—and the bilateral consequences could…
West’s Renewed Focus on Solidarity and Coordination Perturbs Kremlin
(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The disastrous visit to Moscow of the European Union’s top diplomat, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, on February 4–6, followed in quick succession…
How Much Should We Worry About a Resurrected Russia? More Than You Might Think
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) President Vladimir Putin, in a quote he attributed to Winston Churchill, declared as early as 2006 that, “Russia is never as strong as she looks, Russia is never…