Mass Protest in Ingushetia
(Point & Counterpoint) An attempt to demarcate the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia has provoked mass protests in Ingushetia, Russia’s smallest region. Unusually for Russia, part of the Ingush elite…
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Of Russia and the European Far Right
(CSIS Podcast) In this episode, Jeffrey Mankoff sits down with Marlene Laruelle, research professor at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs. They discuss the genesis and evolution of European-Russian far right connections, how…
U.S. Disengagement from the South Caucasus: The Throne Is Never Vacant
(PONARS Policy Memo) Over the last ten years, the United States has been gradually disengaging from the South Caucasus. This has tremendously affected the countries of the region, especially Georgia and…
Kakachia: Georgia remains a steadfast supporter of U.S. initiatives but is unlikely to want to get drawn into a US-Iran conflict
(Eurasianet) A senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump is visiting the Caucasus, where he is expected to try to enlist the region’s three governments in Washington’s campaign of isolating Iran.…
Russia Sanctions not Spurring Domestic Rally-Around-the-Flag Effect
(EDM) Russian propaganda excels at shifting the blame for every one of the country’s problems—even those caused by bad luck, devastating mismanagement, or natural causes—on to the purported main source of…
Russia’s Challenge: A Declining Power’s Quest for Status
(PONARS Policy Memo) For many U.S. and Western observers, Russia has emerged as the most aggressive and assertive challenger to U.S. leadership and the American-led liberal world order. Russia’s annexation of…
Putin’s Anti-Israeli ‘Surge’ in Syria
(EDM) The Russian Ministry of Defense did not wait long to deliver its promised S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Syria. On the night of October 3, a huge An-124 Ruslan transport plane…
Midrats: Russia’s Red Banner Year
(Blog Talk Radio) From the largest exercise since the end of the Cold War, to Syria, to a revival of covert direct action and intermediated nuclear weapons as an issue –…
Entangled Far Rights: A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the Twentieth Century
(NEW BOOK) Since the rise of Putin, many have puzzled by the strange affinity of the far right in the West for today’s authoritarian Russia. Entangled Far Rights explores the deep roots of…
Incomplete Hegemonies, Hybrid Neighbours: Identity Games and Policy Tools
(CEPS; Book Chapter) This paper applies the concepts of hegemony and hybridity as analytical tools to help understand the structural changes taking place within the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries and…