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Mikhail Alexseev
Website | + posts
Professor of Political Science

Affiliation

San Diego State University

Links

San Diego State University (Bio)

Expertise

Ukraine, Russia, Caucasus, Politics, Interstate and Internal Wars, Nationalism, Ethnic Relations, Immigration in Russia/Eurasia
  • Mikhail Alexseev
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhail-alexseev/
    How Do Ukrainians Want to End the Donbas War?
  • Mikhail Alexseev
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhail-alexseev/
    Ukraine’s Counterintuitive Democratic Stoicism: Supporting Democracy-Building in a War-Torn State
  • Mikhail Alexseev
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhail-alexseev/
    Through Europe’s Gate, Out of Russia’s Net: How Ukrainians’ Visa-Free EU Travel Offsets Moscow’s Disinformation
  • Mikhail Alexseev
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhail-alexseev/
    Under the Cover of COVID-19: Reverse Irredentism Rising in East Ukraine’s “People’s Republics”
Richard Arnold
Website | + posts
Associate Professor of Political Science

Affiliation

Muskingum University

Links

Muskingum University (Bio)

Expertise

Comparative Politics, International Relations, Nationalism, Cossack Movements, Ethnic Violence, Hate Crimes
  • Richard Arnold
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/richard-arnold/
    Whose Cossacks Are They Anyway? A Movement Torn by the Ukraine-Russia Divide
  • Richard Arnold
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/richard-arnold/
    Does the March 2019 Sakha Pogrom Portend a Future of Ethnic Violence for Russia?
  • Richard Arnold
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/richard-arnold/
    The Role of Cossacks in Russia’s Soft Power Toolkit
  • Richard Arnold
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/richard-arnold/
    The Expanding Russian Cossack Movement: A Social Base for Putinism
Pavel Baev
Website | + posts
Research Professor

Affiliation

Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

Links

Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) (Bio)

Expertise

Russia, Military Reform, Caucasus, Central Asia, Energy, NATO
  • Pavel Baev
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/pavel-baev/
    Russia Misjudged and Seeks to Restrain the Revolution in Armenia
  • Pavel Baev
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/pavel-baev/
    The White Whale Chooses Freedom: Hard Choices in Opposing Russian Dominance in the Arctic
  • Pavel Baev
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/pavel-baev/
    Russia’s Syrian Predicament Grows Unmanageable
  • Pavel Baev
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/pavel-baev/
    West’s Renewed Focus on Solidarity and Coordination Perturbs Kremlin
Tymofii Brik
Website | + posts
Rector and Professor

Affiliation

Kyiv School of Economics

Links

Personal Website (Bio)

Expertise

Ethnopolitical Conflicts, Post-Communist Transformations, Post-Soviet Institutions, Elites and Identities, Media Development, Migration, Sovereignty, Governance
  • Tymofii Brik
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tymofii-brik/
    Ukraine’s “Type 4” Conflict: Why Is It Important To Study Terminology Before Changing It?
  • Tymofii Brik
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tymofii-brik/
    They All Are Doing Badly: Ukrainians Opinions About Governance During the Pandemic
  • Tymofii Brik
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tymofii-brik/
    Notes from Kyiv | Tymofii Brik
Petro Burkovskyi
Website | + posts
Executive Director

Affiliation

Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives foundation (DIF), Ukraine

Links

Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives foundation (DIF) (Bio)

Expertise

History, Comparative Analysis, Constitutional Law, Security Policy, Energy Policy, International Relations, Propaganda
  • Petro Burkovskyi
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/petro-burkovskyi/
    Will Ukraine’s 2019 Elections Be a Turning Point? Unlikely, but Dangers Lurk
  • Petro Burkovskyi
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/petro-burkovskyi/
    The Current Tensions Around Donbas
  • Petro Burkovskyi
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/petro-burkovskyi/
    Policy Exchange Discussion & Memos: Guaranteeing Ukraine's Long-Run Security (June 9)
  • Petro Burkovskyi
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/petro-burkovskyi/
    Why Would Western Policymakers Favor a Ukrainian Stalemate Over Victory?
Volodymyr Dubovyk
Website | + posts
Associate Professor, Department of International Relations

Affiliation

Mechnikov National University, Odessa; Tufts University

Links

Mechnikov National University (Bio)

Expertise

Ukraine, Transatlantic Relations, EU
  • Volodymyr Dubovyk
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/volodymyr-dubovyk/
    How the Trump Administration’s Contradictory Policies Impact Ukraine
  • Volodymyr Dubovyk
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/volodymyr-dubovyk/
    The US and Ukraine: A Partnership-in-Action: The Trump-Zelensky Indignity Failed to Derail Bilateral Cooperation
  • Volodymyr Dubovyk
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/volodymyr-dubovyk/
    US-Ukraine rela­tions under Joe Biden: secu­rity and domes­tic reforms as mutu­ally rein­forc­ing pillars
  • Volodymyr Dubovyk
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/volodymyr-dubovyk/
    Footing Restored: Nudging Ukraine Forward in the Biden-Zelensky Era
Mikhail Filippov
Website | + posts
Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

Binghamton University, State University of New York (SUNY)

Links

Binghamton University (Bio)

Expertise

Comparative Federalism, Intergovernmental Relations, European Politics, European Union Institutions, Democratic Transitions, East-Central European and Post-Soviet Politics
  • Mikhail Filippov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhail-filippov/
    Russian Federalism: Informal Elite Games Against Formal Democratic Institutions
  • Mikhail Filippov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhail-filippov/
    Nested Games? The Inconsistencies of Russian Foreign Policy in Eurasia
  • Mikhail Filippov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhail-filippov/
    Prevailing Soviet Legacies
  • Mikhail Filippov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhail-filippov/
    Russia’s Regional Governors: Backing the War, Upholding the Status Quo
Oleksandr Fisun
Website | + posts

Head of the Department, Professor, Political Science

Affiliation

Kharkiv National University

Links

Kharkiv National University (Bio), Department (Bio)

Expertise

Ukraine, Nationalism, Comparative Politics

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Natalia Forrat
Website | + posts
Lecturer, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Visiting Research Associate, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Affiliation

University of Michigan; Stanford University

Links

University of Michigan (Bio); Stanford University (Bio); Personal Website (Bio)

Expertise

Authoritarianism, State-Society Relations, State Capacity, Civil Society, Contemporary Russia
  • Natalia Forrat
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/natalia-forrat/
    Turning the Soviet Ethos into a Democracy Cause: Lessons From the 2020 Belarus Mobilization
Timothy Frye
Website | + posts
Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy

Affiliation

Columbia University

Links

Columbia University (Bio)

Expertise

Foreign Policy, Property Rights, Rule of Law, Financial Markets
  • Timothy Frye
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/timothy-frye/
    Russia’s Weak Strongman: The Perilous Bargains That Keep Putin in Power
  • Timothy Frye
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/timothy-frye/
    Russians supported Putin’s moves in Crimea in 2014. Here’s what’s different in 2021
  • Timothy Frye
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/timothy-frye/
    Roundtable on Gulnaz Sharafutdinova’s The Red Mirror
  • Timothy Frye
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/timothy-frye/
    Is Putin’s Popularity (Still) Real? A Cautionary Note on Using List Experiments to Measure Popularity in Authoritarian Regimes
Vladimir Gel'man
Website | + posts
Professor, Political Science

Affiliation

European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP); Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

Links

European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP) (Bio), University of Helsinki (Bio)

Expertise

Russia, Comparative Politics, Elections, Corruption, Rule of Law
  • Vladimir Gel'man
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/vladimir-gelman/
    Velvet Gloves Versus Iron Fist: Dilemmas of Control Under Russian Authoritarianism
  • Vladimir Gel'man
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/vladimir-gelman/
    Explaining Bad Governance in Russia: Institutions and Incentives
  • Vladimir Gel'man
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/vladimir-gelman/
    Preparing for the Parliamentary Elections of 2021: Russian Politics and Society (Gel’man, Lankina, Semenov, Smyth, and more)
  • Vladimir Gel'man
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/vladimir-gelman/
    Expectations for Russia’s September Parliamentary Elections
Theodore Gerber
Website | + posts
Professor of Sociology

Affiliation

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Links

University of Wisconsin-Madison (Bio)

Expertise

Sociology, Statistics, Demography, Migration, Contemporary Russian Society
  • Theodore Gerber
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/theodore-gerber/
    The Destruction of Academic Freedom and Social Science in Russia
Paul Goode
Website | + posts
McMillan Chair in Russian Studies and Associate Professor
Affiliation
Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS), Carleton University, Canada
Links
Carleton University (Bio)
Expertise
Nationalism, Ethnic Politics, Hybrid Regimes, Regionalism, Post-Soviet Region
  • Paul Goode
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/paul-goode/
    Russia and Digital Surveillance in the Wake of COVID-19
  • Paul Goode
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/paul-goode/
    Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield
  • Paul Goode
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/paul-goode/
    Everyday Nationalism in Unsettled Times: In Search of Normality during Pandemic
  • Paul Goode
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/paul-goode/
    How Russian Television Prepared the Public for War
Olexiy Haran
Website | + posts
Professor, Founding Director of the Kyiv Mohyla University School of Policy Analysis; Research Director

Affiliation

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy; Democratic Initiatives Foundation (DIF)

Links

Kyiv Mohyla Academy

Expertise

Ukraine, Regional Politics, Elections
  • Olexiy Haran
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/olexiy-haran/
    Will Ukraine’s 2019 Elections Be a Turning Point? Unlikely, but Dangers Lurk
  • Olexiy Haran
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/olexiy-haran/
    The Current Tensions Around Donbas
  • Olexiy Haran
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/olexiy-haran/
    Policy Exchange Discussion & Memos: Guaranteeing Ukraine's Long-Run Security (June 9)
  • Olexiy Haran
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/olexiy-haran/
    Why Would Western Policymakers Favor a Ukrainian Stalemate Over Victory?
Laura Henry
Website | + posts
Professor of Government and Acting Chair of Russian Department

Affiliation

Bowdoin College

Links

Bowdoin College (Bio)

Expertise

Russian Politics, Eastern Europe, Environmental Politics, Social Movements, Civil Society, BRICS, Arctic, Environmental and Climate Politics, Indigenous Rights
  • Laura Henry
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/laura-henry/
    Russia’s Climate Policy: International Bargaining and Domestic Modernisation
  • Laura Henry
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/laura-henry/
    The UNFCCC: Climates for NGO Mediation in China and Russia
  • Laura Henry
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/laura-henry/
    Cloudy Forecast for the Climate: Russia’s Climate Policy in a Time of War
  • Laura Henry
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/laura-henry/
    Exodus: Russian Repression and Social “Movement”
Theodore Hopf
Website | + posts
Research Fellow

Affiliation

Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies

Links

Personal Website (Bio)

Expertise

International Relations Theory, Qualitative Research Methods, Identity
  • Theodore Hopf
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/theodore-hopf/
    Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945-1958 (New Book)
  • Theodore Hopf
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/theodore-hopf/
    How NATO's War in Yugoslavia is Making Foreign Policy in Moscow
  • Theodore Hopf
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/theodore-hopf/
    Why the United States Should Cede its Russia Policy to Europe
  • Theodore Hopf
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/theodore-hopf/
    The United States and its Unipolar Delusion: Implications for US-Russia Relations
Olga Iakimova
Website | + posts
Associate Professor, Department of Integrated Marketing, Communications, and Branding

Affiliation

School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg

Links

Ural Federal University (Bio)

Expertise

Tolerance and Xenophobia, Attitudes toward Immigrants, Religion in Public Spaces, Emancipative Values, Media Discourses, Comparative Research, Quantitative Methods
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Marat Iliyasov
+ posts
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

Miami University, OH

Links

Miami University, OH (Bio)

Expertise

International Relations, Ethnography, Political Demography, Migrants’ Identity Evolution, Self-Legitimation of Authoritarian Governments, Politics of Memory in Autocracies
  • Marat Iliyasov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/marat-iliyasov/
    Moscow’s Manipulated Memory Politics and Attack on Ukraine
  • Marat Iliyasov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/marat-iliyasov/
    Similarities Stain the Kremlin’s Warfare on Chechens and Ukrainians
  • Marat Iliyasov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/marat-iliyasov/
    The Chechen Footprint During Russian Wartime 
  • Marat Iliyasov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/marat-iliyasov/
    Ramzan Kadyrov: Between Putin's Loyal Praetorian Guard and Devoted Servant of the Chechen People
Volodymyr Ishchenko
Website | + posts
Research Fellow, Institute of Slavic Studies

Affiliation

Freie Universität Berlin

Links

Freie Universität Berlin (Bio)

Expertise

Political Sociology, Social Movements, Political violence, Nationalism, Marxism, Civil Society, Politics of Memory, Far Right, Far Left
  • Volodymyr Ishchenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/volodymyr-ishchenko/
    How Maidan Revolutions Reproduce and Intensify the Post-Soviet Crisis of Political Representation
  • Volodymyr Ishchenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/volodymyr-ishchenko/
    Focusing on extremism won’t counter far-Right violence
  • Volodymyr Ishchenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/volodymyr-ishchenko/
    Russian Military Keynesianism: Who Benefits from the War in Ukraine?
Pauline Jones
Website | + posts
Professor of Political Science and Director of the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum

Affiliation

University of Michigan

Links

University of Michigan (Bio)

Expertise

Comparative Politics, Methodology, Political Science, former Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
  • Pauline Jones
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/pauline-jones/
    The evolution of religious regulation in Central Asia, 1991–2018
  • Pauline Jones
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/pauline-jones/
    The International System After Trump and the Pandemic
  • Pauline Jones
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/pauline-jones/
    Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy in the Context of COVID-19: The Role of Trust and Confidence in a Seventeen-Country Survey
  • Pauline Jones
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/pauline-jones/
    Riots in Kazakhstan
Kornely Kakachia
Website | + posts
Director; Professor of Political Science

Affiliation

Georgian Institute of Politics; Tbilisi State University

Links

Georgian Institute of Politics (Bio)

Expertise

Caucasus, Russia, Turkey, EU, Security, Politics
  • Kornely Kakachia
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/kornely-kakachia/
    Can the EU’s new global strategy make a difference? Strengthening resilience in the Eastern Partnership countries
  • Kornely Kakachia
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/kornely-kakachia/
    Georgia’s Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Challenges for a Small State
  • Kornely Kakachia
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/kornely-kakachia/
    Creeping Finlandization or Prudent Foreign Policy? Georgia’s Strategic Challenges amid the Ukrainian Crisis
  • Kornely Kakachia
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/kornely-kakachia/
    Georgia’s Crossroad after Crossroad: Paths of Risk and Resilience
Nargis Kassenova
Website | + posts
Senior Fellow; Director, Program on Central Asia

Affiliation

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Links

Davis Center, Harvard University (Bio)

Expertise

Central Asian and Asian Security, Eurasian Geopolitics and Energy
  • Nargis Kassenova
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/nargis-kassenova/
    Central Asia and the EU Connectivity Strategy: Rising to the Good Governance Challenge
  • Nargis Kassenova
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/nargis-kassenova/
    How Will U.S. Policy toward Central Asia Look under the Biden Administration?
  • Nargis Kassenova
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/nargis-kassenova/
    Kazakhstan’s New Push to the West
Oleksandra Keudel
Website | + posts
Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and Governance

Affiliation

Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine

Expertise

Multi-level Governance, Democratization, Crisis Governance, Societal Resilience, Ukraine

Links

Kyiv School of Economics (Bio)
  • Oleksandra Keudel
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/oleksandra-keudel/
    National Security in Local Hands? How Local Authorities Contribute to Ukraine’s Resilience
Natalie Koch
Website | + posts
Associate Professor, Department of Geography

Affiliation

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

Links

Personal Website (Bio)

Expertise

Central Asia, Authoritarianism, Geopolitics, Nationalism, Urban Geography, Environmental Politics
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Mark Kramer
Website | + posts
Director, Cold War Studies Program; Senior Fellow

Affiliation

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Links

Harvard University (Bio)

Expertise

Russia, Eurasia, Politics, Conflict, Terrorism, North Caucasus, Energy, Cold War, Archives, Arms Control, Human Rights, Protest
  • Mark Kramer
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mark-kramer/
    Russia, Ukraine, and US Policy
  • Mark Kramer
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mark-kramer/
    U.S.-Russian Relations and the “New Cold War” Metaphor
  • Mark Kramer
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mark-kramer/
    What Putin’s Exit Could Mean for Chechnya: The Pitfalls of Kadyrov’s State-within-a-State
  • Mark Kramer
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mark-kramer/
    A Weak Link in NATO? Bulgaria, Russia, and the Lure of Espionage
Volodymyr Kulyk
Website | + posts
Professor and Head Research Fellow

Affiliation

Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Science of Ukraine; Ukrainian Free University; Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Links

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Bio)

Expertise

Language Politics, Memory, Nationalism, Media, Discourse, Ukraine
  • Volodymyr Kulyk
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/volodymyr-kulyk/
    Church and Geopolitics: The Battle Over Ukrainian Autocephaly
  • Volodymyr Kulyk
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/volodymyr-kulyk/
    Western Scholarship on the “Donbas Conflict”: Naming, Framing, and Implications
  • Volodymyr Kulyk
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/volodymyr-kulyk/
    Is Ukraine a Multiethnic Country?
  • Volodymyr Kulyk
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/volodymyr-kulyk/
    In the Face of the Russian Invasion, Ukrainians Increasingly Embrace Nationalism
Tomila Lankina
Website | + posts
Professor

Affiliation

The London School of Economics and Political Science

Links

The London School of Economics and Political Science (Bio)

Expertise

Regionalism, Federalism, Governance, Russia, India, China, Legacies of Colonialism and Empire, Democratization
  • Tomila Lankina
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tomila-lankina/
    Preparing for the Parliamentary Elections of 2021: Russian Politics and Society (Gel’man, Lankina, Semenov, Smyth, and more)
  • Tomila Lankina
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tomila-lankina/
    Conversations within the Field: Russia’s War against Ukraine and the Future of Russian Studies
Marlene Laruelle
Website | + posts
Research Professor of International Affairs and Political Science; Director, Illiberalism Studies Program; Co-director, PONARS Eurasia

Affiliation

Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Links

The George Washington University (Bio)
Personal Website

Expertise

Ideology, Political Philosophy, Nationalism, Far Right, Extremism, Populism, Illiberalism, Great Power Competition, Russia, Europe, Arctic, Central Asia
  • Marlene Laruelle
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/marlene-laruelle/
    The Russian Orthodox Church’s Conquest of the History Market
  • Marlene Laruelle
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/marlene-laruelle/
    Можно ли на самом деле считать Россию «фашистской»? Комментарии на публикации Тимоти Снайдера
  • Marlene Laruelle
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/marlene-laruelle/
    Beyond Putin: Russia’s Generations Y and Z
  • Marlene Laruelle
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/marlene-laruelle/
    Post-Soviet State Responses to COVID-19: Making or Breaking Authoritarianism?
Adam Lenton
Website | + posts
Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Affiliation
Wake Forest University
Links
Personal Website (Bio)
Expertise
Nationalism, ethnic politics, security, historical legacies, political development
  • Adam Lenton
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/adam-lenton/
    Last Man Standing: What the Latest Dispute Over Tatarstan’s Presidency Tells Us About the Enduring Ethnic Factor in Russian Politics
  • Adam Lenton
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/adam-lenton/
    Putin Has Off-Ramps: Let’s Not Block Them
Tetyana Malyarenko
Website | + posts
Jean Monnet Professor of European Security

Affiliation

National University Odessa Law Academy

Links

National University Odessa Law Academy, Wilson Center (Bio)

Expertise

Conflict Prevention and Settlement, Post-Conflict Reconstruction
  • Tetyana Malyarenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tetyana-malyarenko/
    Evolving Dynamics and Conflict Potential in Eastern Ukraine
  • Tetyana Malyarenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tetyana-malyarenko/
    Connecting Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Eastern Ukraine
  • Tetyana Malyarenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tetyana-malyarenko/
    Decentralization Reloaded in Ukraine? Opportunities and Challenges for its Latest Local Government Reform Project
  • Tetyana Malyarenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tetyana-malyarenko/
    Pawns, Partners, and “Smart Leadership”: Ukraine’s Opportunities in the China-Russia-West Triangle
Lawrence Markowitz
Website | + posts
Professor of Political Science

Affiliation

Rowan University

Links

Rowan University (Bio)

Expertise

State Failure, Social Movements, Russia, Central Asia
  • Lawrence Markowitz
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lawrence-p-markowitz/
    The Nature and Sources of Terrorist Threat in Russia: An “Armed Underground” or ISIL?
  • Lawrence Markowitz
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lawrence-p-markowitz/
    Central Asian Responses to COVID-19: Regime Legitimacy and [De]Securitization of the Health Crisis
  • Lawrence Markowitz
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lawrence-p-markowitz/
    The Current Hostilities between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: Commentary by Dzhuraev, McGlinchey, Markowitz, and Schatz
  • Lawrence Markowitz
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lawrence-p-markowitz/
    Relevant Past PONARS Eurasia Policy Memos on Kazakhstan
Lauren McCarthy
Website | + posts
Associate Professor, Political Science and Legal Studies, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Links

University of Massachusetts Amherst (Bio)

Expertise

Law Enforcement Agencies (Police and Prosecutors), Human Trafficking, Post-Soviet Politics, Russia, Comparative and International Law, Human Rights
  • Lauren McCarthy
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lauren-mccarthy/
    Do Russians Trust their Police? Reform Must Start from the Top
  • Lauren McCarthy
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lauren-mccarthy/
    Post-Protest Legal Encounters and the Development of DIY Lawyering in Russia
  • Lauren McCarthy
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lauren-mccarthy/
    Russian Anti-War Protests and the State’s Response
Mariya Omelicheva
Website | + posts
Professor of National Security Strategy

Affiliation

National War College, National Defense University

Links

National War College (Bio)

Expertise

Russia, Central Asia, Georgia, Foreign Policy, Critical Geopolitics, Counter Terrorism, Human Rights, Democracy Promotion
  • Mariya Omelicheva
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mariya-omelicheva/
    The Nature and Sources of Terrorist Threat in Russia: An “Armed Underground” or ISIL?
  • Mariya Omelicheva
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mariya-omelicheva/
    The United States and Uzbekistan: Military-to-Military Relations in a New Era of Strategic Partnership
  • Mariya Omelicheva
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mariya-omelicheva/
    Washington’s Security Assistance to Kyiv: Improving Long-Term Returns on Military Investments in Ukraine
  • Mariya Omelicheva
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mariya-omelicheva/
    Designating the Russian Imperial Movement a Terrorist Organization: a Drop in the Bucket of Needed U.S. Counter-Extremism Responses
Robert Orttung
Website | + posts
Research Professor of International Affairs, IERES; Director of Research, Sustainable GW

Affiliation

The George Washington University

Links

The George Washington University (Bio)

Expertise

Russia, Energy, Corruption, Institutions, Arctic
  • Robert Orttung
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/robert-orttung/
    Climate change in Northern Russia through the prism of public perception
  • Robert Orttung
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/robert-orttung/
    U.S. Arctic Policymaking Under Trump and Obama: Implications for Russia and China
  • Robert Orttung
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/robert-orttung/
    Preparing for the Parliamentary Elections of 2021: Russian Politics and Society (Gel’man, Lankina, Semenov, Smyth, and more)
  • Robert Orttung
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/robert-orttung/
    International Society Must Act in the Wake of Russia’s Failed Opposition
Nikolay Petrov
Website | + posts
Senior Research Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme; Professor, Political Science Department

Affiliation

Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London; Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Links

Chatham House (Bio)

Expertise

Russia, Politics, Elites, Elections, Regions, Geography
  • Nikolay Petrov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/nikolay-petrov/
    Expectations for Russia’s September Parliamentary Elections
Pavel Podvig
Website | + posts
Director, Russian Nuclear Forces Project

Affiliation

Russian Nuclear Forces Project, Geneva; UN Institute for Disarmament Research; Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University

Links

Russian Nuclear Forces Project (Bio)

Expertise

Military, Arms Control, Nuclear Forces, Technology, Russia
    This author does not have any more posts.
Vladimir Popov
Website | + posts
Research Director; Adjunct Research Professor

Affiliation

Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute, Berlin; Carleton University, Ottawa; Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; New Economic School, Moscow (Professor Emeritus)

Links

Personal Website (Bio), Carleton University (Bio)

Expertise

Economics of Development and Transition, Economic Growth, Russia, China
    This author does not have any more posts.
Maria Popova
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

McGill University, Montreal

Links

McGill University (Bio)

Expertise

Post-Communist Courts, Corruption, Russia, Ukraine, Balkans
  • Maria Popova
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/maria-popova/
    Policy Exchange Discussion & Memos: Guaranteeing Ukraine's Long-Run Security (June 9)
Ora John Reuter
Website | + posts
Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science

Affiliation

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Links

Personal Website (Bio)

Expertise

Russian Politics, Democratization, Elections, Political Parties, Political Economy, Regional Politics
  • Ora John Reuter
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/ora-john-reuter/
    Electoral Manipulation and Regime Support: Survey Evidence from Russia
  • Ora John Reuter
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/ora-john-reuter/
    Russia may be about to invade Ukraine. Russians don’t want it to.
  • Ora John Reuter
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/ora-john-reuter/
    How Popular Is Putin, Really?
  • Ora John Reuter
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/ora-john-reuter/
    Is Putin’s Popularity (Still) Real? A Cautionary Note on Using List Experiments to Measure Popularity in Authoritarian Regimes
Peter Rutland
Website | + posts
Professor of Government

Affiliation

Wesleyan University

Links

Wesleyan University (Bio)

Expertise

Contemporary Russian Politics and Political Economy, Nationalism
  • Peter Rutland
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/peter-rutland/
    The 2020 Oil Crash: Is Russia Still An Energy Superpower?
  • Peter Rutland
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/peter-rutland/
    Do Black Lives Matter in Russia?
  • Peter Rutland
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/peter-rutland/
    Did the Internet Bring Down the Soviet Union?
  • Peter Rutland
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/peter-rutland/
    US-Russia Relations: The Year of Living Dangerously
Mikhail Rykhtik
Website | + posts
Professor, Head of the Department of Political Theory

Affiliation

Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Links

State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Expertise

U.S.-Russian Relations, Security Studies, Institutions, Ethnopolitical Conflicts
    This author does not have any more posts.
Nona Shahnazarian
Website | + posts
Research Fellow

Affiliation

Institute for Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia

Links

Institute for Archaeology and Ethnography, Armenia

Expertise

Ethnographic Method, Economic Anthropology, Gender Studies, Russia, Caucasus, Migration
  • Nona Shahnazarian
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/nona-shahnazarian/
    Goodbye “Sashik-Fifty Percent”: Anti-Corruption Trends in the New Armenia
  • Nona Shahnazarian
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/nona-shahnazarian/
    Nagorno-Karabakh between Turkey’s Scylla and Russia’s Charybdis
  • Nona Shahnazarian
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/nona-shahnazarian/
    Escaping Russia’s Death Grip: How Has Putin’s Aggression in Ukraine Affected Security in Armenia and Karabakh
Oxana Shevel
Website | + posts
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

Tufts University

Links

Tufts University (Bio)

Expertise

Russia, Ukraine, Migration, Refugees, State-Building, Citizenship, International Institutions, Democratization
  • Oxana Shevel
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/oxana-shevel/
    Citizens and Compatriots: The Politics of Citizenship Policy in Russia
  • Oxana Shevel
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/oxana-shevel/
    Decommunization in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine: Law and Practice
  • Oxana Shevel
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/oxana-shevel/
    The Politics of Dual Citizenship in Post-Soviet States: Securing Political Goals Through Citizenship Rules
  • Oxana Shevel
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/oxana-shevel/
    Policy Exchange Discussion & Memos: Guaranteeing Ukraine's Long-Run Security (June 9)
Polina Sinovets
Website | + posts
Associate Professor, International Relations, Political Science, and Sociology; Head of OdCNP

Affiliation

Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine

Links

Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University (Bio 1) (Bio 2)

Expertise

Ukraine, Russia, Politics, Military
  • Polina Sinovets
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/polina-sinovets/
    Escalation for De-Escalation? Hazy Nuclear-Weapon “Red Lines” Generate Russian Advantages
  • Polina Sinovets
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/polina-sinovets/
    How the “Escalation Strategy” Evolved in Russia’s Security Policy
  • Polina Sinovets
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/polina-sinovets/
    The Nuclear Weapons Factor on Interstate Politics in the Russia-Ukraine War
  • Polina Sinovets
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/polina-sinovets/
    All Blushes of Autumn: Russia's Evolving "Red Lines" in the War on Ukraine
Regina Smyth
Website | + posts
Professor, Political Science

Affiliation

Indiana University

Links

Indiana University (Bio)

Expertise

Russia, Eurasia, Elections, Political Parties and Party Systems, Power Centers
  • Regina Smyth
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/regina-smyth/
    The Russian Power Vertical and the COVID-19 Challenge: The Trajectories of Regional Responses
  • Regina Smyth
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/regina-smyth/
    Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield
  • Regina Smyth
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/regina-smyth/
    Special Issue: Russia’s 2020 Constitutional Reform: The Politics of Institutionalizing the Status-Quo
  • Regina Smyth
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/regina-smyth/
    Preparing for the Parliamentary Elections of 2021: Russian Politics and Society (Gel’man, Lankina, Semenov, Smyth, and more)
Maria Snegovaya
Website | + posts
Postdoctoral Fellow, Walsh School of Foreign Service; Fellow, Illiberalism Studies Program

Affiliation

Georgetown University; George Washington University

Links

Personal Website (Bio)

Expertise

Democratic Backsliding, Populist Actors (in East Central Europe), Russian Domestic and Foreign Policy, Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
  • Maria Snegovaya
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/maria-snegovaya/
    Russia’s Crumbling Power Vertical: Decreasing Disposable Income Drives Discontentment
  • Maria Snegovaya
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/maria-snegovaya/
    Russia’s Great Transformational Failure
  • Maria Snegovaya
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/maria-snegovaya/
    Russian Identity and War Support
Nikolai Sokov
Website | + posts
Senior Fellow

Affiliation

Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non‑Proliferation, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Links

Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non‑Proliferation (Bio)

Expertise

Russian-U.S. Relations, Nuclear Command and Control, Communications and Intelligence, Missile Systems, Kosovo, NATO
  • Nikolai Sokov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/nikolai-sokov/
    The Elusive Russian Nuclear Threshold
  • Nikolai Sokov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/nikolai-sokov/
    The U.S. withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty
Valerie Sperling
Website | + posts
Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

Clark University

Links

Clark University (Bio)

Expertise

Russian Politics, Revolution and Political Violence, Mass Murder and Genocide Under Communism, Transitions to Democracy, Globalization and Democracy, Gender Studies
  • Valerie Sperling
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/valerie-sperling/
    Exodus: Russian Repression and Social “Movement”
  • Valerie Sperling
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/valerie-sperling/
    The Impacts of Host- and Home-Country Political Environments on Russian Activists Abroad
Lisa Sundstrom
Website | + posts
Professor

Affiliation

The University of British Columbia

Links

The University of British Columbia (Bio)

Expertise

Climate and Environmental Politics, Comparative Politics, Democratic Theory and Practice, Europe, Gender in Politics, International Relations, International Organizations
  • Lisa Sundstrom
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lisa-sundstrom/
    Russia’s Climate Policy: International Bargaining and Domestic Modernisation
  • Lisa Sundstrom
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lisa-sundstrom/
    The UNFCCC: Climates for NGO Mediation in China and Russia
  • Lisa Sundstrom
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lisa-sundstrom/
    Exodus: Russian Repression and Social “Movement”
Oleksandr Sushko
Website | + posts
Executive Director

Affiliation

International Renaissance Foundation (Kyiv)

Links

International Renaissance Foundation

Expertise

Ukraine, EU, NATO, Security
    This author does not have any more posts.
Mikhail Troitskiy
Website | + posts
Professor of Practice

Affiliation

Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Links

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Expertise

International Security, Negotiation Theory, Russian Foreign Policy, Russia’s Relations with Neighboring States, Relations with EU and the US
  • Mikhail Troitskiy
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhail-troitskiy/
    Statecraft Overachievement: Sources of Scares in U.S.-Russian Relations
  • Mikhail Troitskiy
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhail-troitskiy/
    Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield
  • Mikhail Troitskiy
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhail-troitskiy/
    The Next Clash of Ideas?
  • Mikhail Troitskiy
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhail-troitskiy/
    Statecraft in U.S.-Russia Relations: Meaning, Dilemmas, and Significance
Mikhail Turchenko
Website | + posts
Visiting Scholar

Affiliation

Indiana University, Ostrom Workshop

Expertise

Authoritarian Politics, Elections, Electoral Manipulation, Political Opposition in Autocracies, Russian and Eurasian Politics, Transitional Justice

Links

Personal Website (Bio)
  • Mikhail Turchenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhailturchenko/
    In Their Own Voice: Supporting Russia's Wartime Migrants
  • Mikhail Turchenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhailturchenko/
    Post-Authoritarian Russia Will Need Transitional Justice: Evidence from In-Depth Interviews with Russian Wartime Migrants
  • Mikhail Turchenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/mikhailturchenko/
    Political Reforms for Postwar Russia: What Russian Wartime Migrants Say
Lucan Way
Website | + posts
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

University of Toronto

Links

University of Toronto (Bio)

Expertise

Politics, Government, Ukraine, Democratic Transitions, Hybrid and Competitive Authoritarianism
  • Lucan Way
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lucan-way/
    Six Reasons to be Cautious about The Likelihood of Opposition Success in Ukraine
  • Lucan Way
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lucan-way/
    Why Ukraine’s Yanukovych Fell... Though Many Predicted He Wouldn't
  • Lucan Way
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lucan-way/
    Putin's Move: The Collapse of Ukraine's Faustian Bargain
  • Lucan Way
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lucan-way/
    Russian Foreign Election Interventions Since 1991
Suhnaz Yilmaz
Website | + posts
Professor of International Relations, Dean of College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Director of Graduate School of Business

Affiliation

Koç University, Istanbul

Links

Koç University (Bio)

Expertise

International Relations and Strategy, International Affairs of Eurasia and the Middle East, Foreign Policy Analysis, Energy and Natural Resource Politics, Sustainable Development, Turkish Foreign Policy, International Conflict and Cooperation, European Security and Foreign Policy
  • Suhnaz Yilmaz
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/suhnaz-yilmaz/
    To Tango With the Bear: Turkey-Russia Relations ın a Turbulent Regıon
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