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(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…

Ukraine’s 2017 Education Law Incites International Controversy Over Language Stipulation

(PONARS Policy Memo) The Ukrainian parliament launched a long-expected education reform policy with the adoption of a new “law on education” in September 2017. This development was welcomed by civil society and…

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Reconsidering NATO expansion: a counterfactual analysis of Russia and the West in the 1990s

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Johnson talks about her “intriguing” new paper on Hungary’s “illiberal democracy” [AUDIO]

(MIR Online) Professor Juliet Johnson, McGill Director of the European Union Center of Excellence, executive member of PONARS Eurasia and a former member of the McGill Board of Governors talks about her intriguing new paper,…

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Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries…

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