Riots in Kazakhstan
(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) Dinissa Duvanova, Pauline Jones, Eric McGlinchey, Yulia Nikitina, and Mariya Omelicheva provide insight into the recent, disconcerting events in Kazakhstan. GazMaidan, Crimea #2, or End of the…
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Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food
(UW Press) How agrotechnology served—and undermined—Soviet and Russian political projects. Like all facets of daily life, the food that Russian farms produced and citizens ate—or, in some years, didn’t eat—underwent…
Capital Cities of Russia | PONARS Eurasia Online Academy
What are capital cities and what role do they play in political history? If we take the encyclopedia definition, it is where the seat of government is located. But then…
Engaging with Muslim Civil Society in Central Asia: Components, Approaches, and Opportunities
(USIP) Summary: Muslim civil society organizations (MCSOs) in Central Asia are highly diverse in terms of views, activities, and structures. In most cases, however, they are politically moderate, supportive of…
Russian Strategy in Greater Eurasia: Between the EU and China
(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) For over two centuries, experts, politicians, and famous writers such as Nikolai Gogol and Fyodor Dostoevsky have observed the Europe-Russia-China triangle and confronted the infamous Russian policy…
Russia in Central Asia | PONARS Eurasia Online Academy
In the latest Online Academy video, Mariya Omelicheva, professor of National Security Strategy at the National Defense University, explores Russia’s roles in Central Asia from counterrevolutionary offensives and soft power…
De Facto States and Land-for-Peace Agreements: Territory and Recognition at Odds?
(Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding) This book presents an analytical framework which assesses how ‘land-for-peace’ agreements can be achieved in the context of territorial conflicts between de facto states and their…
The Lords of Misrule in Georgia
(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia and de facto leader of the opposition United National Movement (UNM), is not a saint. But after seven weeks on…
Focusing on extremism won’t counter far-Right violence
(openDemocracy) Far-Right violence is on the rise in Europe. In fact, far-Right terror is one of the most important rising threats in the West, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace,…
Mutual Images of Russia and America as Part of Their Domestic Culture Wars
(RAD) Over the past few years, U.S.–Russian relations have cooled almost to freezing, putting them at a level comparable to the worst days of the Cold War. Indeed, “new Cold…
Revealing schemes: The politics of conspiracy in Russia and the post-Soviet region
(LSE Blogs) What motivates governments and other political actors to promote conspiracy theories? And what impact do these theories have on society? Drawing on a new book covering Russia and…
Relevant Past Policy Memo | The Coming Fall of Kabul
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo by Charles J. Sullivan, 2015) The city of Kabul has fallen on three occasions over the past generation: to the mujahedin in 1992, the Taliban in 1996, and the Northern Alliance…