Why Would the Kremlin Root for Bernie Sanders? Mistrust of Mass Politics and the Outward Projection of Domestic Insecurities

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The U.S. intelligence community seems to believe that Russia has intervened and continues to intervene in American elections on behalf of both President Donald Trump and…

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Why Russia’s Strategic Deception Is Popular: The Cultural Appeal of the Trickster

(PONARS Policy Memo) Russia has often been accused of violating the norms of “civilized” international interaction. It has engaged in small-scale incidents such as violations of national airspace and aerial brinkmanship…

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Russia’s Internal Otherness – Analysis

(Eurasia Review) A deep internal culture divide in Russia between traditionalists and European Russians encourages isolationism. For Russia, the cost of sacrificing development for the sake of security and international status,…

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Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy

Providing a comprehensive overview of Russia’s foreign policy directions, this handbook brings together an international team of scholars to develop a complex treatment of Russia’s for-eign policy. The chapters draw…

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Russian Society and the Conflict in Ukraine: Masses, Elites and National Identity

(E-Int'l Relations) This chapter looks at how Russian society reacted to the conflict in and with Ukraine. The active phase of the conflict began in March 2014 with the annexation of…

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Organic Tradition or Imperial Glory? Contradictions and Continuity of Russian Identity Politics

(RAD) Abstract: Russian identity politics and, more broadly, the country’s development in modern times has been conditioned by two constitutive splits: between the imperial elites and the peasant masses, on the…

What Is the Meaning of “National” in the Russian Debate about the National Interest?

Reflecting on the Russian debate about the “national interest,” prominent political analyst Gleb Pavlovsky has said: Today, there are no centers that would work to delineate Russian national interests, nor…

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Kazakhstan and the “Russian World”: Is a New Intervention on the Horizon?

Russia’s annexation of Crimea and subsequent support for separatists in eastern Ukraine gave rise to fears that this scenario could be repeated elsewhere. Especially worrisome is the fact that the…

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New Policy Memo: Kazakhstan and the “Russian World”: Is a New Intervention on the Horizon?

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New Book! Russia’s Postcolonial Identity: A Subaltern Empire in a Eurocentric World

This book applies postcolonial theory to Russia by looking at it as a subaltern empire. It pushes postcolonial studies and constructivist International Relations towards an uneasy dialogue, which produces tensions…

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