Clearing the Air: Secretary Blinken Visits Ukraine
Image license/credit Secretary Blinken’s recent visit to Ukraine stands out in a number of ways. Blinken had not been in Ukraine for exactly a year, since September 8, 2022. This…
Ukraine Task Force: Getting Ukraine Right: From Negotiations Trap to Victory
PONARS Eurasia has organized a Task Force of prominent academic experts based in Ukraine, Europe, and North America to generate expert-group assessments of Ukraine-related events, issues, and trends. Our goal…
Ensuring Genuine Results? A New Electoral Design in Uzbekistan
PONARS Eurasia Commentary | Uzbekistan is undergoing its first constitutional reforms since Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s accession to power in 2016, marking another important change to its political structure. The president has…
Ukraine, Taiwan, and Macron’s “Strategic Autonomy”
PONARS Eurasia Commentary | In Europe, one now wonders whether President Emmanuel Macron and his “strategic autonomy” proposal caused damage to the political and military cohesion of the West on…
After Violence: Russia’s Beslan School Massacre and the Peace that Followed
NEW BOOK | Starting on September 1, 2004, and ending 53 hours later, Russia experienced its most appalling act of terrorism in history, the seizure of School No. 1 in…
Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022
NEW BOOK | The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has its roots in the events of 2013–2014. Russia cynically termed the seditionist conflict in Crimea and Eastern Donbas a…
A Rock and a Hard Place: The Russian Opposition in a Time of War | New Voices on Eurasia with Jeremy Ladd (April 11)
The latest in the New Voices on Eurasia Series, introducing the DC policy community to the best “up and coming” scholars on Eurasia. A Rock and A Hard Place: The…
Russia’s Regional Governors: Backing the War, Upholding the Status Quo
(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) Experts have been actively discussing the Russian domestic factors that could influence the course of the war. Considering the country’s territorial size and diversity, the stability of…
Opinion | Why Do Russians Still Want to Fight?
From the perspective of a Russian soldier, the war in Ukraine must look nightmarish. In over a year of combat, nearly 200,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded, according to American…
The Russia Program at GW (IERES)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the conventional ways of studying and understanding Russia. The Russia Program at GW is responding to contemporary challenges of studying Russia…
The Evolving Concerns of Russians after the Invasion | New Voices on Eurasia with Sasha de Vogel (March 9)
The latest in the New Voices on Eurasia Series, introducing the DC policy community to the best “up and coming” scholars on Eurasia. The Evolving Concerns of Russians after the…
PONARS Eurasia Spring Policy Conference (March 3)
Thank you for joining us! See the event videos on YouTube. The annual PONARS Eurasia Spring Policy Conference convenes international experts from North America, Russia, Ukraine, and other parts of Eurasia for a series of panel…