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Richard Arnold

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Associate Professor of Political Science

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Comparative Politics, International Relations, Nationalism, Cossack Movements, Ethnic Violence, Hate Crimes
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Beyond Wagner: The Russian Cossack Forces in Ukraine

  • February 10, 2023
  • Richard Arnold
Readers of the Western press might think that the only paramilitary or mercenary forces participating in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner group and Ramzan Kadyrov’s Kadyrovtsy. Yet…
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The Most Consequential World Cup in History?

  • October 3, 2022
  • Richard Arnold
Sporting Mega Events rarely have a direct impact on current events and tend to be seen as reflective of international politics on other levels. Yet as the world prepares for…
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The Expanding Russian Cossack Movement: A Social Base for Putinism

  • May 18, 2022
  • Richard Arnold
On November 27, 2018, the leaders of the 11 Cossack hosts convened in a hall in Moscow and agreed to establish an “All-Russian Cossack Organization” into which they would be…
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The Role of Cossacks in Russia’s Soft Power Toolkit

  • December 13, 2021
  • Richard Arnold
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Cossacks have become a highly recognizable feature of modern Russia, playing a central role in the annexation of Crimea and promotion of secessionism in Donbas. Beyond…
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Does the March 2019 Sakha Pogrom Portend a Future of Ethnic Violence for Russia?

  • May 20, 2019
  • Richard Arnold
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The violent anti-immigrant events in March 2019 in the Russian autonomous republic of Sakha (Yakutia) may foreshadow rising interethnic hostility and an inward turn connected to a…

Whose Cossacks Are They Anyway? A Movement Torn by the Ukraine-Russia Divide

  • January 11, 2019
  • Richard Arnold
(PONARS Policy Memo) Most headlines about the conflict in Eastern Ukraine do not normally mention either the role of the Cossacks or the use of the Cossack image, but both are,…
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