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Gorenburg: Russia’s Syria “withdrawal” was really a way to reconceptualise the presence as permanent

(Economist) Vladimir Putin stares out from a poster hanging at Russian army installations throughout Syria. “Russia’s armed forces are the guarantor of world security,” the posters declare. It is a good…

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Agreeable Authoritarians: Personality and Politics in Contemporary Russia

(SSRN Paper) (Co-authored with Graeme Robertson) Abstract: Personality research is a growing field in political behavior, but most research to date is confined to democracies. We expand the scope to…

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Slides from MCIS 2016 panel on Color Revolutions

Two more sets of slides today, both from the panel on Color Revolutions and Regional Security at the Moscow International Security Conference 2016. The first set goes with the speech by Major…

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Russia and the West in the European Security Architecture: Clash of Interests or a Security Dilemma?

(Chapter from OSCE Yearbook 2015) Russia’s approach towards relations with Ukraine since early 2014 heralds a major shift in Russian foreign policy. It has crossed a Rubicon that it will be difficult –…

Does North Korea Have a Place in Russia’s “Turn to the East”?

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) What are the prospects for Russian-North Korean relations today? Ruled by a harsh totalitarian regime, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea, is one…

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Petrov: Victory Day is practically the only 20th-century event that all Russians, from every political spectrum, can agree upon

(CSM) Sofia Serbinenko was on the streets of Moscow with about 800,000 other marchers Monday, carrying a beribboned photograph of her great-grandfather, a Soviet fighter-bomber pilot who fought the Nazis in World…

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Gorenburg: Russia’s Syria “withdrawal” was really a way to reconceptualise the presence as permanent

Agreeable Authoritarians: Personality and Politics in Contemporary Russia

Slides from MCIS 2016 panel on Color Revolutions

Russia and the West in the European Security Architecture: Clash of Interests or a Security Dilemma?

Does North Korea Have a Place in Russia’s “Turn to the East”?

Petrov: Victory Day is practically the only 20th-century event that all Russians, from every political spectrum, can agree upon

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