Baev 10 - PONARS Eurasia

New ‘Hybrid’ Plots Revealed in Russian Anti-Western Policy

(EDM) The central theme of the traditional Munich Security Conference last weekend was the current assessment of the Russian threat. The briefs prepared for the high-level participants, including US Secretary of…

View

Restoring equilibrium: U.S. policy options for countering and engaging Russia

(Brookings Report) Lenin was famously, perhaps apocryphally, asked how to advance a political cause. He’s reported to have answered, “Probe with a bayonet; if you meet steel, stop! If you meet…

View

Has the Scare in Moscow Over the US ‘Kremlin List’ Evaporated?

(EDM) The paramount news in Moscow last week was the United States Department of the Treasury’s release of the long-expected report on senior Russian political figures and oligarchs—the so-called “Kremlin…

View

Revisionist Russia Is the Most Nuclearized Power in the World

(EDM) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared at last week’s (January 18) special meeting of the United Nations Security Council that Russia had no intention of joining the Treaty on the…

View

Russia’s ‘Victory’ in Syria is Debunked, Derailed and Defeated

(EDM) Premature announcements of political triumphs often result in negative blowback, but Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declaration of victory in the Syrian war was debunked particularly swiftly (see EDM, January 11, 2018).…

View

A Year in Review: Russia’s Passive Year Ends Without Closure

(EDM) In practical terms, Russia has not yet begun 2018—the country awakes from its traditional holiday vacation only on Tuesday (January 9). That said, Russians’ common reflection on the year past can easily…

View

Olympic Fiasco Illuminates Putin’s Weakness

(EDM) The decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban the Russian delegation from the 2018 Winter Olympics was predictable—and the indignant response in Moscow was ready. Hesitant voices of…

View

Declaring Victory in Syria, Putin Stands to Lose the Elusive Peace

(EDM) The meeting of three presidents—Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Iran’s Hassan Rouhani—in Sochi last Wednesday (November 22), was supposed to mark a triumph for Russian foreign policy.…

Russia’s Entanglement in Syria: A Protracted, Extreme Stress Factor for the Russian Navy

(PONARS Policy Memo) On Russian Navy Day, July 30, 2017, a high-profile naval parade was held in St. Petersburg to demonstrate the power of the Russian Navy both to the world…

View

Militarization and Nuclearization: The Key Features of the Russian Arctic

(EDM) Taking ownership of and “conquering” the Arctic are themes Russian authorities love to amplify. But sometimes, the harsh Northern reality interferes. The crash of an Mi-8 helicopter in Svalbard…

Contacts

DIGITAL RESOURCES

Knowledge Hub

RECOMMENDED

Misconceptions about Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia and Their Impact on Policy

Five Years into the War, Ukraine Is Showing Grittiness, Rebounding Confidence in War Fortunes

Russia’s Wartime Internet: A Contested Space with the Regime Still Predominant

Why Georgians Need to Take Hungarian Lessons

The ‘Don’t Lose Lukashenko’ Approach: Kyiv’s (Non-) Strategic Ambiguity Toward the Belarusian Opposition

PONARS Eurasia Podcast

Baev

New ‘Hybrid’ Plots Revealed in Russian Anti-Western Policy

Restoring equilibrium: U.S. policy options for countering and engaging Russia

Has the Scare in Moscow Over the US ‘Kremlin List’ Evaporated?

Revisionist Russia Is the Most Nuclearized Power in the World

Russia’s ‘Victory’ in Syria is Debunked, Derailed and Defeated

A Year in Review: Russia’s Passive Year Ends Without Closure

Olympic Fiasco Illuminates Putin’s Weakness

Declaring Victory in Syria, Putin Stands to Lose the Elusive Peace

Russia’s Entanglement in Syria: A Protracted, Extreme Stress Factor for the Russian Navy

Militarization and Nuclearization: The Key Features of the Russian Arctic