Putin’s Revenge: Part One
(PBS FRONTLINE) The inside story of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s conflict with the United States.
Gans-Morse and Mearsheimer analyze the collapse of the INF Treaty on “Chicago Tonight”
(WTTP) Russia announced today that it plans to develop two new land-based missile launch systems in the next two years in retaliation for the U.S. announcing that it’s leaving a…
Russia Enters a Treacherous New Post-Arms Control World
(EDM) The United States’ suspension (as of February 2) of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, was no surprise—but still delivered a hard blow to Russia’s international position. President Donald…
Marten: The Venezuelan crisis is unfolding during a dangerous period in U.S.-Russian relations
(Eurasianet) A leading American scholar on U.S.-Russian relations is voicing alarm over reports that paramilitaries from a Russian military contractor have filtered into Venezuela, the Latin American nation where the…
American University of Central Asia Announces Andrew Kuchins New President
(Bard) Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan – February 04, 2019 – The Board of Trustees of the American University of Central Asia announced today that Andrew Kuchins, a professor at Georgetown University in…
The Syrian Predicament Turns Precarious for Russia
(EDM) Foreign affairs have yielded few successes and much chagrin for Russia since the start of 2019 (see EDM, January 14, 2019). Relations with the United States are going from bad to…
The Dynamics of Emerging De-Facto States Eastern: Ukraine in the Post-Soviet Space [NEW BOOK]
(Routledge) (Co-authored with Stefan Wolff) What are the causes and consequences of the crisis in Ukraine, and what has been the nature of local, national, and external actors’ involvement in it? These…
Aktürk: The relationship between the Turkish and Syrian presidents was broken after the Assad regime launched its policy of mass murder
(Al Jazeera) Ten years ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then prime minister of Turkey, hosted Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad for a family holiday in the Aegean resort of Bodrum as relations between Turkey and Syria soared to new…
Ukraine on the Brink | An Interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko
(Jacobinmag) When the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, its former republics’ economies went into free fall. Ukraine — the most populous of the new states, after Russia — was…
Commemorating 1917 in Russia: Ambivalent State History Policy and the Church’s Conquest of the History Market
(Europe-Asia Studies) Abstract: Russia’s historical policy towards the centenary of 1917 was composed of several parallel strategies: diminishing the meaning of the event to avoid the head of state and…
Developments in Russian Politics (9th Edition)
The 9th iteration of this go-to textbook on contemporary Russian politics offers comprehensive and critical discussion of the country’s most recent developments, providing substantive coverage of the key areas in…
Kurilla: The Siege of Leningrad was one of the worst tragedies of humankind in the last century
(Gulf Times) They ate nothing,” Marina Kulagina recalled, telling the story of her mother who survived the years-long Siege of Leningrad in its entirety. Seven of her mother Valentina Grigoryeva’s eight siblings…