Are Elections Bad for Georgia’s Democracy?
(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) Georgia’s politics has always been operatic, a blend of comedy and tragedy. Like opera, it is a performance for and by elites. The latest drama was the…
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The Russian Orthodox Church | PONARS Eurasia Online Academy
Orthodox Christianity plays an important role in contemporary Russian identity beyond serving strictly as a religious faith. In this video, we unpack the interactions between the Russian Orthodox Church and…
How Russian Economic Policy is Made | PONARS Eurasia Online Academy
In the latest PONARS Eurasia video, Christopher Miller (Tufts University) provides a succinct overview of Russian economic policy. The video is accompanied by a list of additional sources for those…
Authoritarian Rallying as Reputational Cascade? Evidence from Putin’s Popularity Surge after Crimea
(American Political Science Review) When international conflict causes an authoritarian leader’s popularity to soar, extant theories lead us to treat such “rallying” as sincere preference change, the product of surging…
Russia’s Military Interventions: Patterns, Drivers, and Signposts
(RAND Corporation) Moscow’s use of its military abroad in recent years has radically reshaped perceptions of Russia as an international actor. With the 2014 annexation of Crimea, the invasion of…
When There Is a State? The Politics of Recognition and Kosovo
(Diplomacy & Statecraft) The Kosovo case remains topical for understanding the practice of state recognition, especially in the context of secessionist claims to independence. The diversity of reactions of third…
Latest parliamentary win by Putin’s United Russia has been years in the manufacturing
(The Conversation) President Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party defied economic concerns and a recent slump in support to retain a parliamentary majority – to the surprise of almost no one. The…
PONARS Eurasia Fall Policy Conference
The PONARS Eurasia Fall Policy Conference will be held online on Friday, September 24, 2021. Agenda 10:00-11:25 am Welcome & Panel 1: US-Russia Relations Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University, “US-Russia Relations: Two…
Vaccine Hesitancy in Russia, France, and the United States | PONARS Eurasia Podcast
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,…
Expectations for Russia’s September Parliamentary Elections
PONARS Eurasia Commentary by Maria Lipman and Nikolay Petrov with Vladimir Gel’man, Grigorii Golosov, Ben Noble, Gleb Pavlovsky, Andrey Pertsev, Ekaterina Schulmann, and Denis Volkov. Although the experts interviewed here…
Perestroika and New Thinking: A Retrospective
(Demokratizatsiya) Excerpt: More than three and a half decades have passed since the start of the process of change in the Soviet Union known throughout the world as perestroika. The…
Trump sympathy in the Balkans: cross-border populist appeal
(Mediterranean Politics) Do populist leaders tend to win support from the same kinds of people abroad as they do at home? Since we know public opinion can shape foreign policy,…