Policy Memos | Аналитика 29

Russ-Afrique? Russia, France, and the Central African Republic

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The French government has been taking a balanced and often supportive diplomatic and economic approach to Russia in recent years, so Moscow should logically be trying…

All Quiet in Russian-Belarusian Relations

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) For approximately a year, from summer 2018 onwards, observers were paying close attention to tensions in relations between Russia and Belarus. A particular concern was caused…

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BRI-illiance and BRI-ittleness: Hungary’s Success and Serbia’s Struggle with Chinese Trade Flows

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) First and foremost, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a $550 billion project designed to relieve China’s industrialized zones of surplus output and grow its less…

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Escalation for De-Escalation? Hazy Nuclear-Weapon “Red Lines” Generate Russian Advantages

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) According to the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), Russian nuclear strategy calls for the early use of nuclear weapons in the event of a conflict with NATO.…

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The United States and Uzbekistan: Military-to-Military Relations in a New Era of Strategic Partnership

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The 2016 change of power in Uzbekistan to President Shavkat Mirziyoyev prompted the deepening of cooperation between Washington and Tashkent. While rapprochement touched many areas of bilateral…

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Are Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin Partners? Interpreting the Russia-China Rapprochement

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The blossoming of relations between the Russian and Chinese presidents has been prominently on display. Images have been widely distributed of Xi Jinping awarding Vladimir Putin the…

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Putin’s Fourth Term: The Phantom Breakthrough

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Russian President Vladimir Putin promised a “decisive leap forward in development” in his fourth term (2018-2024), claiming that Russia will create a “modern system of effective governance.”…

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Russian ITC Security Policy and Cybercrime

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The fast expansion of information-communication technology (ITC) as a requisite factor of economic development and improvement of public institutions inevitably creates new opportunities for criminals. Hundreds of…

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Ukraine’s Counterintuitive Democratic Stoicism: Supporting Democracy-Building in a War-Torn State

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Numerous academic studies have shown that economic hardship, ethnoregional divides, corrupt governance, and war are bad for democracy, particularly in states where democracy has weak historical roots.…

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Russia Misjudged and Seeks to Restrain the Revolution in Armenia

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The Caucasus remained strikingly stable for a whole decade after the Russian-Georgian war in August 2008. Neither the explosion of turmoil in the Arab world from 2011…

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The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Engagements Beyond Europe and Eurasia

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) As one of the most intractable and tendentious issues in post-Soviet affairs, the enduring rivalry between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh subregion presents scholars of…

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The State and the Human Body in Putin’s Russia: The Biopolitics of Authoritarian Revanche

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Over the past decade, one of the key aspects of Russian politics has been the increased interference of the state in the private lives of the population.…

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Russ-Afrique? Russia, France, and the Central African Republic

All Quiet in Russian-Belarusian Relations

BRI-illiance and BRI-ittleness: Hungary’s Success and Serbia’s Struggle with Chinese Trade Flows

Escalation for De-Escalation? Hazy Nuclear-Weapon “Red Lines” Generate Russian Advantages

The United States and Uzbekistan: Military-to-Military Relations in a New Era of Strategic Partnership

Are Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin Partners? Interpreting the Russia-China Rapprochement

Putin’s Fourth Term: The Phantom Breakthrough

Russian ITC Security Policy and Cybercrime

Ukraine’s Counterintuitive Democratic Stoicism: Supporting Democracy-Building in a War-Torn State

Russia Misjudged and Seeks to Restrain the Revolution in Armenia

The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Engagements Beyond Europe and Eurasia

The State and the Human Body in Putin’s Russia: The Biopolitics of Authoritarian Revanche