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The Security Costs and Benefits of Non-State Militias: The Example of Eastern Ukraine

Non-state (or “informal”) militias play crucial roles on both sides of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. They serve as force multipliers and, in some cases, provide plausible deniability for brutality.…

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Time for Tough Talk With Putin? Interview with Kimberly Marten

(The Takeaway) September 28—President Obama will formally meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time since Russia annexed Crimea and armed secessionist rebels in eastern Ukraine. The presidents have plenty to…

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Putin’s Choices: Explaining Russian Foreign Policy and Intervention in Ukraine

(The Washington Quarterly) Russian President Vladimir Putin’s evolving policies toward Ukraine have continued to surprise almost everyone. It was clear from the start that he considered the February 2014 ouster…

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Marten: Countries’ descent into warlordism often begins when there is a disintegration of central authority

(VOX) As bad as the war in eastern Ukraine has already become, displacing more than a million people from their homes and costing thousands of civilians their lives, there is a possibility that it could…

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Should the United States Provide Military Assistance to Ukraine? PONARS Eurasia Experts Weigh In

A group of former senior military and diplomatic officials have called for the United States to provide $1 billion a year in military assistance to Ukraine over the next three…

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Endangering USA won’t stop Putin: Opposing view

(USA Today) Supporting the democratically elected Ukrainian government with funding and advice is good policy. So is sending communications, monitoring and protective equipment to the struggling Ukrainian army. But supplying…

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A Putin surprise in eastern Ukraine?

Despite the allure of another Russian spy scandal in New York City, the real news right now centers on the upsurge of fighting in eastern Ukraine. During the weekend, 30…

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Will Russia’s economic turmoil affect its foreign policy?

On Wednesday – before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s end of the year news conference – the following question was posed to members of PONARS Eurasia: How is the current financial…

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Don’t Prop up Putin by Giving Him an Enemy

(Huffington Post) Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to provoke a military confrontation with the West. His military jets have repeatedly buzzed NATO facilities, coming close to causing a crash with…

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Is Putin intentionally provoking the West?

(PBS NewsHour) Following a growing list of aggressive moves made by Russia against the West, what is Putin's plan? Kimberly Marten, a Russian scholar and professor at Barnard College and…

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The Security Costs and Benefits of Non-State Militias: The Example of Eastern Ukraine

Time for Tough Talk With Putin? Interview with Kimberly Marten

Putin’s Choices: Explaining Russian Foreign Policy and Intervention in Ukraine

Marten: Countries’ descent into warlordism often begins when there is a disintegration of central authority

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Endangering USA won’t stop Putin: Opposing view

A Putin surprise in eastern Ukraine?

Will Russia’s economic turmoil affect its foreign policy?

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Is Putin intentionally provoking the West?