2018 2 - PONARS Eurasia

The Nature and Sources of Terrorist Threat in Russia: An “Armed Underground” or ISIL?

(PONARS Policy Memo) The 2018 FIFA World Cup shifted the attention of terrorism watchers to Russia. In advance of the tournament, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)…

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The Kremlin’s New Man in Dagestan: Corruption Supplants Security as Moscow’s Chief Concern

(PONARS Policy Memo) On October 3, 2017, Vladimir Vasiliev was appointed acting head of the republic of Dagestan. Vasiliev replaced the outgoing leader, Ramazan Abdulatipov, who had guided the region…

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The Real or Imagined Infiltration of Fifth Columns in the Post-Soviet Region

(PONARS Policy Memo) For much of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, and especially since the 2011-12 Bolotnaya demonstrations, the Kremlin has claimed that Russia is threatened by internal enemies. Various actors have been…

U.S.-Russian Relations and the “New Cold War” Metaphor

(PONARS Policy Memo) Over the past twenty years, observers such as Stephen F. Cohen have argued that relations between the United States and Russia have been plunged into a “new Cold…

Do Russians Trust their Police? Reform Must Start from the Top

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Despite some recent, seemingly half-hearted efforts, the police remain one of Russia’s most unreformed bureaucracies and Russians’ trust in police has been low throughout the post-Soviet…

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U.S. Disengagement from the South Caucasus: The Throne Is Never Vacant

(PONARS Policy Memo) Over the last ten years, the United States has been gradually disengaging from the South Caucasus. This has tremendously affected the countries of the region, especially Georgia and…

The Cold War, Post-Cold War, and the Academy: Policy Recommendations from an Oral History of Russian and Eurasian Studies

(PONARS Policy Memo) In Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts, historian David Engerman portrayed contemporary Russian and Eurasian studies as insular, ineffectual, and—ultimately—irrelevant. Charles King’s…

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The Nature and Sources of Terrorist Threat in Russia: An “Armed Underground” or ISIL?

The Kremlin’s New Man in Dagestan: Corruption Supplants Security as Moscow’s Chief Concern

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Russia’s Challenge: A Declining Power’s Quest for Status

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