Economic Challenges Facing Russia and Eurasia

Join us for an upcoming PONARS Eurasia event discussing the current economic challenges facing Russia and Eurasia. Speakers: Tymofiy Mylovanov (Kyiv School of Economics) Maria Omelicheva (National War College, National…

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The Current Tensions Around Donbas

(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) What are the different actors’ perspectives on the increased tensions? What does the revival of tensions—and their apparent current decrease—tell us about the state of security? Georgi Derluguian…

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Central Asian Responses to COVID-19: Regime Legitimacy and [De]Securitization of the Health Crisis

Central Asian Responses to COVID-19: Regime Legitimacy and [De]Securitization of the Health Crisis Despite a history of using discourses of danger to define other transnational challenges (e.g., Islamic radicalism), Central…

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Event (Feb. 4): The Storming of the US Capitol: Views from Eurasia with Dubovyk, Omelicheva, Pisano, Schatz, and Troitskiy

(PONARS Eurasia and IERES) On January 6, 2021, protestors carried out a violent attack at the US Capitol in an attempt to overturn Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 United States…

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Designating the Russian Imperial Movement a Terrorist Organization: a Drop in the Bucket of Needed U.S. Counter-Extremism Responses

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) On April 6, 2020, the U.S. State Department designated the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) as a terrorist organization and placed its leaders on its list of…

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When Does the Crime-Terror Nexus Fail to Materialize? Drug Trafficking, Militants, and the State in Russia

(Journal of Global Security Studies) Abstract: What are the conditions that obstruct the formation of a crime-terror nexus? To answer this question we carry out a quantitative and qualitative analysis of…

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Beneath the “Crime-Terror Nexus”: Local Power Struggles, Competition over Resources, and Corrupt State

(Minerva) (Co-authored with Lawrence Markowitz) The post-Cold War era has been marked by policy and academic debates about the cooperative links between criminal and terrorist actors. According to the prevailing…

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Omelicheva: Without U.S. military aid, Russia-backed rebels would have controlled more Ukrainian territory

(The Atlantic) When Adam Schiff asked Bill Taylor, the first witness in the House’s public impeachment hearings, to explain to Americans why U.S. security assistance to Ukraine matters for their own security, America’s…

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Omelicheva: U.S. assistance plays a very significant role in the Ukrainian military’s ability to fight the war in Donbas

(Roll Call) On June 6, Russian-allied forces in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region fired a volley of artillery shells on Ukrainian soldiers based in a rural area, even though Moscow had signed…

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Washington’s Security Assistance to Kyiv: Improving Long-Term Returns on Military Investments in Ukraine

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea and invasion of the Donbas in 2014, the United States has committed over $1.5 billion in military aid to Ukraine. This…

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