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Richard Arnold
Website | + posts
Associate Professor of Political Science

Affiliation

Muskingum University

Links

Muskingum University (Bio)

Expertise

Comparative Politics, International Relations, Nationalism, Cossack Movements, Ethnic Violence, Hate Crimes
  • Richard Arnold
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/richard-arnold/
    Whose Cossacks Are They Anyway? A Movement Torn by the Ukraine-Russia Divide
  • Richard Arnold
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/richard-arnold/
    Does the March 2019 Sakha Pogrom Portend a Future of Ethnic Violence for Russia?
  • Richard Arnold
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/richard-arnold/
    The Role of Cossacks in Russia’s Soft Power Toolkit
  • Richard Arnold
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/richard-arnold/
    The Expanding Russian Cossack Movement: A Social Base for Putinism
Tymofii Brik
Website | + posts
Rector and Professor

Affiliation

Kyiv School of Economics

Links

Personal Website (Bio)

Expertise

Ethnopolitical Conflicts, Post-Communist Transformations, Post-Soviet Institutions, Elites and Identities, Media Development, Migration, Sovereignty, Governance
  • Tymofii Brik
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tymofii-brik/
    Ukraine’s “Type 4” Conflict: Why Is It Important To Study Terminology Before Changing It?
  • Tymofii Brik
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tymofii-brik/
    They All Are Doing Badly: Ukrainians Opinions About Governance During the Pandemic
  • Tymofii Brik
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tymofii-brik/
    Notes from Kyiv | Tymofii Brik
Petro Burkovskyi
Website | + posts
Executive Director

Affiliation

Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives foundation (DIF), Ukraine

Links

Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives foundation (DIF) (Bio)

Expertise

History, Comparative Analysis, Constitutional Law, Security Policy, Energy Policy, International Relations, Propaganda
  • Petro Burkovskyi
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/petro-burkovskyi/
    Will Ukraine’s 2019 Elections Be a Turning Point? Unlikely, but Dangers Lurk
  • Petro Burkovskyi
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/petro-burkovskyi/
    The Current Tensions Around Donbas
  • Petro Burkovskyi
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/petro-burkovskyi/
    Policy Exchange Discussion & Memos: Guaranteeing Ukraine's Long-Run Security (June 9)
  • Petro Burkovskyi
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/petro-burkovskyi/
    Why Would Western Policymakers Favor a Ukrainian Stalemate Over Victory?
Stephen Crowley
Website | + posts
Professor and Chair, Department of Politics

Affiliation

Oberlin College

Links

Oberlin College (Bio)

Expertise

Politics, Russian and East European Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies
  • Stephen Crowley
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/stephen-crowley/
    Russia’s Truckers and the Path from Economic to Political Protest
  • Stephen Crowley
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/stephen-crowley/
    Global Cities Versus Russian Rustbelt Realities
  • Stephen Crowley
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/stephen-crowley/
    Who’s to Blame? Sanctions, Economic Hardship, and Putin’s Fear of Color Revolutions
Natalia Forrat
Website | + posts
Lecturer, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Visiting Research Associate, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Affiliation

University of Michigan; Stanford University

Links

University of Michigan (Bio); Stanford University (Bio); Personal Website (Bio)

Expertise

Authoritarianism, State-Society Relations, State Capacity, Civil Society, Contemporary Russia
  • Natalia Forrat
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/natalia-forrat/
    Turning the Soviet Ethos into a Democracy Cause: Lessons From the 2020 Belarus Mobilization
Laura Henry
Website | + posts
Professor of Government and Acting Chair of Russian Department

Affiliation

Bowdoin College

Links

Bowdoin College (Bio)

Expertise

Russian Politics, Eastern Europe, Environmental Politics, Social Movements, Civil Society, BRICS, Arctic, Environmental and Climate Politics, Indigenous Rights
  • Laura Henry
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/laura-henry/
    Russia’s Climate Policy: International Bargaining and Domestic Modernisation
  • Laura Henry
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/laura-henry/
    The UNFCCC: Climates for NGO Mediation in China and Russia
  • Laura Henry
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/laura-henry/
    Cloudy Forecast for the Climate: Russia’s Climate Policy in a Time of War
  • Laura Henry
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/laura-henry/
    Exodus: Russian Repression and Social “Movement”
Kristina Hook
Website | + posts
Assistant Professor of Conflict Management
Affiliation
Kennesaw State University
Links
Personal Website (Bio)
Expertise
Genocide and Mass Atrocities, Emerging Technologies and Disinformation, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, War-Related Environmental Degradation, Ukraine, Russia
  • Kristina Hook
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/kristina-hook/
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  • Kristina Hook
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/kristina-hook/
    The Policy Implications of Russia’s Genocide in Ukraine
  • Kristina Hook
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/kristina-hook/
    Categorizing Russian Atrocity Crimes in Ukraine: Judicial Accountability and Implications Ahead
Olga Iakimova
Website | + posts
Associate Professor, Department of Integrated Marketing, Communications, and Branding

Affiliation

School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg

Links

Ural Federal University (Bio)

Expertise

Tolerance and Xenophobia, Attitudes toward Immigrants, Religion in Public Spaces, Emancipative Values, Media Discourses, Comparative Research, Quantitative Methods
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Marat Iliyasov
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

Miami University, OH

Links

Miami University, OH (Bio)

Expertise

International Relations, Ethnography, Political Demography, Migrants’ Identity Evolution, Self-Legitimation of Authoritarian Governments, Politics of Memory in Autocracies
  • Marat Iliyasov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/marat-iliyasov/
    Moscow’s Manipulated Memory Politics and Attack on Ukraine
  • Marat Iliyasov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/marat-iliyasov/
    Similarities Stain the Kremlin’s Warfare on Chechens and Ukrainians
  • Marat Iliyasov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/marat-iliyasov/
    The Chechen Footprint During Russian Wartime 
  • Marat Iliyasov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/marat-iliyasov/
    Ramzan Kadyrov: Between Putin's Loyal Praetorian Guard and Devoted Servant of the Chechen People
Volodymyr Ishchenko
Website | + posts
Research Fellow, Institute of Slavic Studies

Affiliation

Freie Universität Berlin

Links

Freie Universität Berlin (Bio)

Expertise

Political Sociology, Social Movements, Political violence, Nationalism, Marxism, Civil Society, Politics of Memory, Far Right, Far Left
  • Volodymyr Ishchenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/volodymyr-ishchenko/
    How Maidan Revolutions Reproduce and Intensify the Post-Soviet Crisis of Political Representation
  • Volodymyr Ishchenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/volodymyr-ishchenko/
    Focusing on extremism won’t counter far-Right violence
  • Volodymyr Ishchenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/volodymyr-ishchenko/
    Russian Military Keynesianism: Who Benefits from the War in Ukraine?
Oleksandra Keudel
Website | + posts
Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and Governance

Affiliation

Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine

Expertise

Multi-level Governance, Democratization, Crisis Governance, Societal Resilience, Ukraine

Links

Kyiv School of Economics (Bio)
  • Oleksandra Keudel
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/oleksandra-keudel/
    National Security in Local Hands? How Local Authorities Contribute to Ukraine’s Resilience
Adam Lenton
Website | + posts
Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Affiliation
Wake Forest University
Links
Personal Website (Bio)
Expertise
Nationalism, ethnic politics, security, historical legacies, political development
  • Adam Lenton
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/adam-lenton/
    Last Man Standing: What the Latest Dispute Over Tatarstan’s Presidency Tells Us About the Enduring Ethnic Factor in Russian Politics
  • Adam Lenton
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/adam-lenton/
    Putin Has Off-Ramps: Let’s Not Block Them
Tetyana Malyarenko
Website | + posts
Jean Monnet Professor of European Security

Affiliation

National University Odessa Law Academy

Links

National University Odessa Law Academy, Wilson Center (Bio)

Expertise

Conflict Prevention and Settlement, Post-Conflict Reconstruction
  • Tetyana Malyarenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tetyana-malyarenko/
    Evolving Dynamics and Conflict Potential in Eastern Ukraine
  • Tetyana Malyarenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tetyana-malyarenko/
    Connecting Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Eastern Ukraine
  • Tetyana Malyarenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tetyana-malyarenko/
    Decentralization Reloaded in Ukraine? Opportunities and Challenges for its Latest Local Government Reform Project
  • Tetyana Malyarenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tetyana-malyarenko/
    Pawns, Partners, and “Smart Leadership”: Ukraine’s Opportunities in the China-Russia-West Triangle
Lawrence Markowitz
Website | + posts
Professor of Political Science

Affiliation

Rowan University

Links

Rowan University (Bio)

Expertise

State Failure, Social Movements, Russia, Central Asia
  • Lawrence Markowitz
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lawrence-p-markowitz/
    The Nature and Sources of Terrorist Threat in Russia: An “Armed Underground” or ISIL?
  • Lawrence Markowitz
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lawrence-p-markowitz/
    Central Asian Responses to COVID-19: Regime Legitimacy and [De]Securitization of the Health Crisis
  • Lawrence Markowitz
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lawrence-p-markowitz/
    The Current Hostilities between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: Commentary by Dzhuraev, McGlinchey, Markowitz, and Schatz
  • Lawrence Markowitz
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lawrence-p-markowitz/
    Relevant Past PONARS Eurasia Policy Memos on Kazakhstan
Stanislav Markus
Website | + posts
Associate Professor, Department of International Business

Affiliation

University of South Carolina

Links

University of South Carolina (Bio)

Expertise

Political Economy and Risk, Non-Market Strategies, Economic Development, Property Rights, Corporate Governance, Stakeholder Engagement
  • Stanislav Markus
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/stanislav-markus/
    Meet Russia’s oligarchs, a group of men who won’t be toppling Putin anytime soon
Ryhor Nizhnikau
Website | + posts
Senior Research Fellow

Affiliation

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

Links

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) (Bio)

Expertise

EU Eastern Neighborhood, Russian Policy in the Post-Soviet Space, Domestic and Foreign Policies of Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine
  • Ryhor Nizhnikau
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/ryhor-nizhnikau/
    A Partnership Not in the Making: Ukrainian-Belarusian Relations After the Euromaidan
  • Ryhor Nizhnikau
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/ryhor-nizhnikau/
    Forever Together? Relations Between Moscow and Minsk After the Belarusian Revolution of 2020
  • Ryhor Nizhnikau
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/ryhor-nizhnikau/
    Russia’s War and Belarus’s Ravaged Sovereignty
  • Ryhor Nizhnikau
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/ryhor-nizhnikau/
    A Window of Opportunity by Default: Will Moldova Use It?
William Pyle
Website | + posts

Frederick C. Dirks Professor of International Economics

Affiliation
Middlebury College

Links
Personal Website (Bio)

Expertise
Russian economy, household and firm behavior, political economy, public opinion

  • William Pyle
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/william-pyle/
    Russians’ Worldview and the Legacy of the Early 1990s
Peter Rutland
Website | + posts
Professor of Government

Affiliation

Wesleyan University

Links

Wesleyan University (Bio)

Expertise

Contemporary Russian Politics and Political Economy, Nationalism
  • Peter Rutland
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/peter-rutland/
    The 2020 Oil Crash: Is Russia Still An Energy Superpower?
  • Peter Rutland
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/peter-rutland/
    Do Black Lives Matter in Russia?
  • Peter Rutland
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/peter-rutland/
    Did the Internet Bring Down the Soviet Union?
  • Peter Rutland
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/peter-rutland/
    US-Russia Relations: The Year of Living Dangerously
Simon Saradzhyan
Website | + posts
Director, Russia Matters Project; Assistant Director, U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism

Affiliation

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Links

Harvard University (Bio)

Expertise

Russia, International Relations, International Security, Space Security, Terrorism & Counterterrorism, Military Intervention, Nuclear Programs & Terrorism
  • Simon Saradzhyan
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/simon-saradzhyan/
    Why Russia Is Unlikely to Use Zapad-2021 to Intervene Militarily in European Countries
  • Simon Saradzhyan
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/simon-saradzhyan/
    In Russia’s Nuclear Messaging to West and Ukraine, Putin Plays Both Bad and Good Cop
Kirill Shamiev
Website | + posts
Visiting Fellow, Wider Europe Program

Affiliation

European Council on Foreign Relations

Expertise

Civil-Military Relations, Defense Reforms, Russian Security Sector and Domestic Politics, Evaluation and Impact Assessment

Links

European Council on Foreign Relations (Bio)
  • Kirill Shamiev
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/kirillshamiev/
    Moscow's Military (In)effectiveness: Why Civil-Military Relations Have Hampered Russia's Performance on the Battlefield in Ukraine
  • Kirill Shamiev
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/kirillshamiev/
    Resilience Strained: How Civil-Military Relations Are Shaping Russia’s War Effort
Maria Snegovaya
Website | + posts
Postdoctoral Fellow, Walsh School of Foreign Service; Fellow, Illiberalism Studies Program

Affiliation

Georgetown University; George Washington University

Links

Personal Website (Bio)

Expertise

Democratic Backsliding, Populist Actors (in East Central Europe), Russian Domestic and Foreign Policy, Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
  • Maria Snegovaya
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/maria-snegovaya/
    Russia’s Crumbling Power Vertical: Decreasing Disposable Income Drives Discontentment
  • Maria Snegovaya
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/maria-snegovaya/
    Russia’s Great Transformational Failure
  • Maria Snegovaya
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/maria-snegovaya/
    Russian Identity and War Support
Lisa Sundstrom
Website | + posts
Professor

Affiliation

The University of British Columbia

Links

The University of British Columbia (Bio)

Expertise

Climate and Environmental Politics, Comparative Politics, Democratic Theory and Practice, Europe, Gender in Politics, International Relations, International Organizations
  • Lisa Sundstrom
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lisa-sundstrom/
    Russia’s Climate Policy: International Bargaining and Domestic Modernisation
  • Lisa Sundstrom
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lisa-sundstrom/
    The UNFCCC: Climates for NGO Mediation in China and Russia
  • Lisa Sundstrom
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lisa-sundstrom/
    Exodus: Russian Repression and Social “Movement”
Stanislav Tkachenko
Website | + posts
Vice Rector, International Relations Department

Affiliation

St. Petersburg State University

Links

St. Petersburg State University (Bio)

Expertise

EU, Economics, Russian Foreign policy, International Political Economy
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Mikhail Turchenko
Website | + posts
Visiting Scholar

Affiliation

Indiana University, Ostrom Workshop

Expertise

Authoritarian Politics, Elections, Electoral Manipulation, Political Opposition in Autocracies, Russian and Eurasian Politics, Transitional Justice

Links

Personal Website (Bio)
  • Mikhail Turchenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhailturchenko/
    In Their Own Voice: Supporting Russia's Wartime Migrants
  • Mikhail Turchenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhailturchenko/
    Post-Authoritarian Russia Will Need Transitional Justice: Evidence from In-Depth Interviews with Russian Wartime Migrants
  • Mikhail Turchenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhailturchenko/
    Political Reforms for Postwar Russia: What Russian Wartime Migrants Say
Susanne Wengle
Website | + posts
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

University of Notre Dame

Links

University of Notre Dame (Bio)

Expertise

Comparative and International Political Economy, Post-Soviet Transitions (Russia in particular), Food and Agricultural Systems
  • Susanne Wengle
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/susanne-wengle/
    Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food
  • Susanne Wengle
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/susanne-wengle/
    Russia’s War on Ukrainian Farms
  • Susanne Wengle
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/susanne-wengle/
    Black Sea Blackmail: Ukrainian Food Exports in War Conditions
  • Susanne Wengle
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/susanne-wengle/
    Russian Politics Today: Stability and Fragility
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