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Russia’s Policy on International Interventions: Principle or Realpolitik?

Since the collapse of the USSR, Russia’s position on international interventions and sovereignty has appeared ambiguous or incoherent to many observers. With the glaring exception of the Georgia war, Russia…

The EU in Eastern Europe: Has Normative Power Become Geopolitical?

(By Andrey Makarychev and Andrey Devyatkov) The November 2013 Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit in Vilnius played a key role in the transformation of the concept of the EU as a…

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How to Understand Russia’s Arctic Strategy

During most of the late 20th century, the Arctic region was primarily a zone of military interests, used by both NATO and Soviet strategic forces as bases for their nuclear…

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Orttung, Makarychev: Russian (and Chinese) Mega-Projects Bolster Triumphalist Narratives

(Al Jazeera) Much of the international discussion of Sochi the Olympics has focused on the seeming irrationality of the enterprise, as manifested by the choice of location, the cost of…

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Ukraine’s False Choice

(FP) There are no winners in the geopolitical tug of war between Russia and the West. The recent headlines about the alleged leaked recording of U.S. officials discussing the crisis…

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Security Threats at Winter Olympics

(C-SPAN; Video) Panelists talked about the security threats to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The group, which included PONARS Eurasia member Andrew Kuchins, as well as Thomas de Waal,…

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A Crisis of U.S.-Russian Arms Control?

(Carnegie Moscow Center) In the run-up to the Munich Security Conference, new details of the dispute between Moscow and Washington about Russia's new missile allegedly breaching the Intermediate Nuclear Forces…

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Zhemukhov, Baev: Threats Surrounding Sochi

(The Financial Times) Nearly every day, Sochi’s tens of thousands of law enforcement officers receive another name with an accompanying photograph. There is 27-year-old Zarema Isayeva; 24-year-old Dzhamilya Mamayeva; 19-year-old…

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Davos and Russia’s Regions

(The Moscow Times) Recent events in Ukraine and the differences between its east and west force us to take a new look at the role regions play in the process of political and societal development. In Russia — which is at least…

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Russian Federation 2014: Short-Term Prognosis

(Publication) Russia has not been static, monolithic and uniform. Russia’s economy has grown to become the six largest in the world, fuelling a corresponding rise in its ambitions. Russia’s desire…

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Russia’s Policy on International Interventions: Principle or Realpolitik?

The EU in Eastern Europe: Has Normative Power Become Geopolitical?

How to Understand Russia’s Arctic Strategy

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Russian Federation 2014: Short-Term Prognosis