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Why Would Western Policymakers Favor a Ukrainian Stalemate Over Victory?

During the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, some Western governments muttered that if the blitzkrieg on Kyiv succeeds, they might accept Ukraine’s…

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Russians Know the Reality of War, and Many of Them Still Support Putin

(NYTimes) Don’t count your chickens before they hatch, an old English proverb says. Its Russian counterpart advises you to count your chickens in the fall. In Russia, fall starts looming…

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Why the West is Losing the Global Information War Over Ukraine and How It Can Be Fixed

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a blatant violation of international law and strikes at the core principles of the UN. This has been widely accepted by political elites and the…

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The North Caucasus and the Russian War in Ukraine

The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the challenges faced by the Russian army have increasingly fed discussions about the political future of Russia, presidential succession, and the danger of…

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The End of the Post-Soviet Order: How Putin’s War Has Hurt Russia in Central Asia and the Caucasus

(Foreign Affairs) The Kremlin has struggled to contain the fallout of its invasion of Ukraine. It did not imagine that its war would inspire sustained unity among Western countries, nor…

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Irrelevant Intrigues and Diminished Power Projection: Russia in Retreat from the Middle East

Ambitions rather than interests have shaped Russian policy in the Middle East in the last decade, and the overlapping crises in this turbulent region have indeed presented many useful opportunities…

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How the War in Ukraine is Reformatting the Post-Soviet Space

Every day, Russia’s neighbors observe its hostile actions in Ukraine with concern and uncertainty. The war and its consequences are producing a variety of outcomes, many we cannot predict or…

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What is the ideology of a mobilized Russia?

(Russia Post) Russia has entered a new phase of the war with the “partial” mobilization announced by Vladimir Putin on September 21, exactly seven months after his (first) speech launching the “special…

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The Most Consequential World Cup in History?

Sporting Mega Events rarely have a direct impact on current events and tend to be seen as reflective of international politics on other levels. Yet as the world prepares for…

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GW Launches Program for Displaced Ukrainian Scholars

(Hatchet) Officials launched a fellowship program for scholars displaced by the war in Ukraine through an institute on Eurasian studies in the Elliott School of International Affairs this fall. The…

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Russia-Ukraine War

Why Would Western Policymakers Favor a Ukrainian Stalemate Over Victory?

Russians Know the Reality of War, and Many of Them Still Support Putin

Why the West is Losing the Global Information War Over Ukraine and How It Can Be Fixed

The North Caucasus and the Russian War in Ukraine

The End of the Post-Soviet Order: How Putin’s War Has Hurt Russia in Central Asia and the Caucasus

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How the War in Ukraine is Reformatting the Post-Soviet Space

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The Most Consequential World Cup in History?

GW Launches Program for Displaced Ukrainian Scholars