How to understand the post-Soviet ‘war of lapels’
(Monkey Cage/WP) (Co-authored with Sean Roberts) A “War of Lapels” is raging as many people in the post-Soviet space must make political choices about what to wear on their jackets on…
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Soft Power with a Scalpel
Russian soft power has a new face: biker Alexander Zaldostanov, aka “The Surgeon.” The widely publicized tour of his Night Wolves motorcycle club, with all its carnivalesque and pretentious absurdity through parts…
Gorenburg: Russian military programs will keep running, but cuts or delays are inevitable
(WSJ) MOSCOW—Russia’s economic crisis is forcing President Vladimir Putin to quietly scale back plans to build an “indomitable” military, even as Moscow readies one of the largest-ever displays of its might on Red…
Kramer debunked the notion that NATO pledged non-enlargement to Russia
(New Eastern Europe) At the end of 2014 Mikhail Gorbachev wrote that he feared that the global order was now returning to that of the Cold War. “One primary reason,” Gorbachev…
Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 2: Gerasimov on military threats facing Russia
Here’s the second installment of my reporting from the 2015 MCIS conference. This one and the next will focus on Russian views of NATO as the primary source of military threat…
Special Issue: Making Sense of Russian Foreign Policy
(Problems of Post-Communism) As Peter Gourevitch wrote, “If nations have choices, we need theories and research that explains how countries make these choices.” This special issue of Problems of Post-Communism…
The Fourth Style of Politics: Eurasianism as a Pro-Russian Rethinking of Turkey’s Geopolitical Identity
(Turkish Studies) Abstract: This article discusses the political origins, present-day significance, and implications of the intellectual movement known as “Eurasianism” in Turkey, a movement with Euroskeptic, anti-American, Russophile, neo-nationalist, secularist, and…
Gazprom Must Compromise on EU Charges, but Putin Cannot
(EDM) The European Commission delivered, on April 22, a “statement of objections” resulting from its probe launched back in September 2012, which amounts to charging Gazprom with abusing its dominant position…
Petrov: In many Russian regions, in one-company towns, if you lose a job you simply cannot find another
(Bloomberg) Vladimir Putin's economic model has relied on abundant oil and gas revenue to fuel consumer spending and raise living standards. Modernizing Russia's outdated industrial base hasn't been a priority. Now…
Cooley: Tsipras is playing to his base; Putin is cultivating the impression that Greece might be friendly
(CNBC) Fear is running amok yet again that the cash-strapped Greek government will default on its loans to its European partners and the International Monetary Fund. While its fate is still…