2018 3 - PONARS Eurasia

Chinese Artificial Intelligence Projects Expand in Eurasian Cities

(PONARS Policy Memo) As a global leader in developing and using surveillance technologies, China is exporting its high-tech brand of authoritarianism to its neighbors in Eurasia. Chinese firms have been…

Is Russia Really “Fascist”? A Comment on Timothy Snyder

(PONARS Policy Memo) Over the past decade, and even more overtly since the annexation of Crimea, there has been a growing tendency to describe Russia—or at least the Putin regime—as “fascist.”…

Renewables in Kazakhstan and Russia: Promoting “Future Energy” or Entrenching Hydrocarbon Dependency?

(PONARS Policy Memo) Energy and natural resource use has always been a key issue of geopolitics, but as more countries adopt “post-oil” transition policies, environmental sustainability has itself become an important…

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Administrative Mobilization and the Dynamics of Electoral Manipulations on Putin’s Presidential Election

(PONARS Policy Memo) Vladimir Putin’s new presidential term is shaping up to be the most complicated of his political career. According to the Russian Constitution, he is not allowed to…

Prospects for U.S.-Russian Arms Control and Strategic Stability

(PONARS Policy Memo) This has been an eventful year so far for U.S.-Russian relations in the field of nuclear weapons. The U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) was released in February…

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Russian Organized Crime and Electoral Processes

(PONARS Policy Memo) Russian organized crime has high levels of sophistication and well-developed networks of corruption. It influences a considerable portion of the economy and spills across national borders. In this regard,…

Как западное дистанцирование привело к «узбекской весне» и как удержать ее на плаву

Множество изменений произошло в Узбекистане с декабря 2016 года, когда после смерти давнего диктатора Ислама Каримова, Шавкат Мирзиёев был избран президентом. Заключенные были выпущены в массовом порядке из тюрем; укоренившиеся…

Why Uzbekistan’s New President Needs to Expand Access to Islamic Education

(PONARS Policy Memo) Uzbekistan remains one of the Muslim states in the former Soviet space most averse to the development of Islamic education. For over twenty years, in the name of…

The Political Economy of Russian Information & Communication Technologies

(PONARS Policy Memo) In 2017, the term “Russian hackers” became a brand similar to that of Stolichnaya, Aeroflot, and Lada. Russia’s information and communication technologies (ICT) sector became described as having…

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Dissimilar Politics in Mariupol and Kramatorsk: Two Ukrainian Cities on the Eastern Front

(PONARS Policy Memo) In the late spring of 2014, Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) militants seized Mariupol and Kramatorsk, but they were soon recaptured by the Ukrainian army. Both cities are…

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Chinese Artificial Intelligence Projects Expand in Eurasian Cities

Is Russia Really “Fascist”? A Comment on Timothy Snyder

Renewables in Kazakhstan and Russia: Promoting “Future Energy” or Entrenching Hydrocarbon Dependency?

Administrative Mobilization and the Dynamics of Electoral Manipulations on Putin’s Presidential Election

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Why Uzbekistan’s New President Needs to Expand Access to Islamic Education

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Dissimilar Politics in Mariupol and Kramatorsk: Two Ukrainian Cities on the Eastern Front