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  • A Rock and a Hard Place: The Russian Opposition in a Time of War | New Voices on Eurasia with Jeremy Ladd (April 11)

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  • The Russia Program at GW (IERES)

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  • The Evolving Concerns of Russians after the Invasion | New Voices on Eurasia with Sasha de Vogel (March 9)

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  • PONARS Eurasia Spring Policy Conference (March 3)

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  • Ukrainathon 2023 (Feb. 24-25)

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RSS PONARS Eurasia Podcast
  • The Putin-Xi Summit: What's New In Their Joint Communique ? February 23, 2022
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman speaks with Russian China experts Vita Spivak and Alexander Gabuev about the February meeting between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, and what it may tell us about where the Russian-Chinese relationship is headed.
  • Exploring the Russian Courts' Ruling to Liquidate the Memorial Society January 28, 2022
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with scholars Kelly Smith and Benjamin Nathans about the history, achievements, and impending shutdown of the Memorial Society, Russia's oldest and most venerable civic organization, and what its imminent liquidation portends for the Russian civil society.
  • Russia's 2021 census and the Kremlin's nationalities policy [Lipman Series 2021] December 9, 2021
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with social scientist Andrey Shcherbak about the quality of the data collected in the recent population census and the goals of Vladimir Putin's government's nationalities policy
  • Active citizens of any kind are under threat [Lipman Series 2021] November 5, 2021
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Alexander Verkhovsky about the Kremlin's ever expanding toolkit against political and civic activists, journalists, and other dissidents.
  • Russia's Legislative Elections followup [Lipman Series 2021] October 4, 2021
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Tanya Lokot and Nikolay Petrov about the results of Russia’s legislative elections and about what comes next.
  • Why Is the Kremlin Nervous? [Lipman Series 2021] September 14, 2021
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Ben Noble and Nikolay Petrov about Russia’s September 17-19 legislative elections, repressive measures against electoral challengers, and whether to expect anything other than preordained results.
  • Vaccine Hesitancy in Russia, France, and the United States [Lipman Series 2021] August 31, 2021
    In this week's PONARS Eurasia Podcast episode, Maria Lipman chats with Denis Volkov, Naira Davlashyan, and Peter Slevin about why COVID-19 vaccination rates are still so low across the globe, comparing vaccine hesitant constituencies across Russia, France, and the United States.  
  • Is Russia Becoming More Soviet? [Lipman Series 2021] July 26, 2021
      In a new PONARS Eurasia Podcast episode, Maria Lipman chats with Maxim Trudolyubov about the current tightening of the Russian political sphere, asking whether or not it’s helpful to draw comparisons to the late Soviet period.
  • The Evolution of Russia's Political Regime [Lipman Series 2021] June 21, 2021
    In this week's episode of the PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Grigory Golosov and Henry Hale about the evolution of Russia's political regime, and what to expect in the lead-up to September's Duma elections.
  • Volodymyr Zelensky: Year Two [Lipman Series 2021] May 24, 2021
    In this week's episode of the PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Sergiy Kudelia and Georgiy Kasianov about Ukrainian President Zelensky's second year in office, and how he has handled the political turbulence of the past year.

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PONARS Eurasia is a network of over 140 academics, mainly from North America and post-Soviet Eurasia, advancing new approaches to research on security, politics, economics, and society in Russia and Eurasia. Its core missions are to connect scholarship to policy on and in Russia and Eurasia and to foster a professional community, especially of mid-career and rising scholars, among those committed to developing policy-relevant and collaborative research.

Decisions on membership are made by the PONARS Eurasia Executive Committee, though only a limited number of new members can be admitted each year. Applications should be submitted by September 1 of each year to be considered during the Executive Committee’s only regular meeting, which usually takes place in mid-late September.

Specific criteria for membership have evolved as the organization itself has evolved. Current eligibility considerations include the following requirements. Applicants must:

  • Hold a PhD, DPhil, or kandidat nauk degree (or their country’s equivalent);
  • Have a permanent academic base in North America or post-Soviet Eurasia (unfortunately, resource constraints keep us from expanding more broadly), with the exception of people who left a permanent academic base in a post-Soviet country because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine;
  • Be mainly engaged in academic scholarship (not, for example, government service, journalism, public commentary, consulting, or political activism). The kind of academic focus PONARS Eurasia seeks is typically reflected by primary employment in a university, academy of science, or research institute;
  • Pursue academic research (a) that has a strong empirical focus on the post-Soviet region and (b) that has important policy implications that could be developed through participation in PONARS Eurasia;
  • Show evidence of scholarly leadership potential in their disciplines as they relate to Russia and post-Soviet Eurasia. This is typically evidenced by academic publications (most important) as well as training, international fellowships, and conference participation;
  • Be committed to actively engaging with their academic peers and policy audiences through PONARS Eurasia platforms and activities;
  • Have a strong command of written and spoken English.

Applications are especially (though not exclusively) welcomed from individuals who:

  • Have earned a PhD, DPhil, or kandidat nauk degree within the last ten years;
  • Do not already have a high public profile on policy issues;
  • Have earned a reputation for collegial collaboration and cooperation with scholars in Eurasia, Europe, and North America;
  • Complement rather than duplicate areas of expertise already represented in the PONARS Eurasia network;
  • Add to the diversity of PONARS Eurasia perspectives.

If you are eligible and would like to apply, please send the following to Marlene Laruelle (laruelle@gwu.edu) or Henry Hale (hhale@gwu.edu):

  1. One-page cover letter outlining your reasons for wanting to join PONARS Eurasia.
  2. Curriculum vitae.
  3. An original draft policy memo of no more than 2,000 words in English that draws important policy implications from your academic research, that has not previously been published (or committed to publication) elsewhere, and that may be considered for publication in the PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo series. Please refer to other policy memos for examples. Please see the policy memo guidelines.
  4. Contact information (not actual letters) for three scholars who can talk about your work, research program, collegiality, and other qualifications. These references may include members of PONARS Eurasia.
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