Who Is at Fault in Ukraine?
Foreign Affairs recently published a number of articles examining the extent to which the ongoing crisis in Ukraine is the West's fault. Those articles sparked a heated debate, so the editors decided to ask a…
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Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia (New Book)
(Oxford University Press) This book investigates how gender stereotypes and sexualization have been used as tools of political legitimation in contemporary Russia. Despite their enmity, regime allies and detractors alike…
Policy Memo: The Troubled Rebirth of Political Opposition in Russia
In the 2000s, most experts considered the role of political opposition in Russia as peripheral at best. But with the protest wave of 2011-12, opposition actors and movements reentered the…
Russia and Ukraine: Not the Military Balance You Think
Moscow's Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies has just published a new book on the military aspects of the Ukraine crisis. Here's a preview of my book review, published…
Kurilla: Russia needs to do more to acknowledge the gulag
(The New Yorker) An officer in the Red Army. A journalist. The director of Moscow Café Number Three. On Wednesday, a soft litany sounded from a little green median at…
Policy Memo: How Immigration Aids Russia’s Transformation into an Assimilationist Nation-State
Immigration is often discussed in the framework of political economy and security studies. When discussed in the context of national identity, immigration is invariably depicted as a “challenge” or an…
Policy Memo: Pro et Contra: Views of the United States in Four Post-Soviet States
(Co-authored by Theodore Gerber and Jane Zavisca) Rising tensions between Russia and the West make public perceptions of the United States in the post-Soviet region an important policy issue. Positive…
Ruble’s Fall Echoes 1991, Not 1998
(Moscow Times) The ruble-to-dollar exchange rate dominated headlines this week, falling to a record low of 42 rubles to the U.S. dollar. Considering the extraordinary events of recent months, why would anyone but a historian take any…
How Putin turned Ukraine to the West
(Monkey Cage) The 2014 snap elections to the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) that took place on Oct. 26, 2014 will likely go down in history as a watershed election in…
(Russian) Civilization and its Dissidents: An Interview with Graeme Robertson
(Steppedispatches.com) SD: Much of your work has been focused on protest – that is the subject of your book that was released in 2011. How do you see the current…