Prevailing Soviet Legacies
(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) The “curse” of the Soviet legacy continues to permeate post-Soviet nations in many ways. For instance, the Russian leadership actively draws on the Soviet past to justify…
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Mikhail Filippov
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science
Affiliation
Binghamton University, State University of New York (SUNY)
Expertise
Comparative Federalism, Intergovernmental Relations, European Politics, European Union Institutions, Democratic Transitions, East-Central European and Post-Soviet Politics
Nested Games? The Inconsistencies of Russian Foreign Policy in Eurasia
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Scholars of international relations and Russian politics actively debate whether some “grand strategy” underpins Russian foreign policy choices in the Putin era. For instance, prominent American military historian…
Russian Federalism: Informal Elite Games Against Formal Democratic Institutions
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In Russia, formal constitutional principles of federalism cannot be abolished without putting the country’s political stability at significant risk. Even the Soviet leadership could not afford to…