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The Origins of Dominant Parties: Building Authoritarian Institutions in Post-Soviet Russia [NEW BOOK]

In many autocracies, regime leaders share power with a ruling party, which can help generate popular support and reduce conflict among key elites. Such ruling parties are often called dominant…

Russia’s New Conventional Capability: Implications for Eurasia and Beyond

(PONARS Policy Memo) In late 2015 and early 2016, Russia demonstrated in Syria that it had acquired long-range, precision-guided, conventional-strike capability, the use of which has implications far beyond military utility.…

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Lankina: Activists have learned to draw lessons from events of repression

(BBC Radio) Long Road to Change — In an age when technology has made organising protest movements easier than ever before, journalist Zoe Williams asks why we aren't seeing long-term results. She…

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Demand for Law and the Security of Property Rights: The Case of Post-Soviet Russia [NEW BOOK / ARTICLE]

(APSR) Studies of property rights overwhelmingly focus on whether states expropriate or protect property, overlooking the crucial issue of whether private sector actors will use state institutions. By contrast, I argue that…

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What does Russia want from Donald Trump?

(The Conversation) There are several explanations for why relations between Russia and the United States having been in decline since 2010, from Russia’s increasingly aggressive postures (especially regarding Ukraine) to US support…

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Russia Beyond Putin | Ten Essays

(Daedalus) The current issue of Dædalus represents a collaborative effort to think afresh about Russia’s political future. The long and eventful reign of Vladimir Putin, commenced in 2000, is well…

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Wishnick: US-Russia tensions enable China and Russia to move more quickly on economic cooperation projects

(TMN) Host Luke Vargas discusses the U.S.-China relationship in the age of President Trump. When Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Trump earlier this month U.S. strikes in Syria overshadowed the…

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The Russian-U.S. Borderland: Opportunities and Barriers, Desires and Fears

(Eurasia Border Review) The paper focuses on the Russia-U.S. cross-border area that lies in the Bering Sea region. Employing the concept of geographical proximity, I argue that the U.S.-Russian proximity works…

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Warfare in a Post-Truth World: Lessons from Ukraine

(PONARS Policy Memo) The U.S. intelligence community’s January 6 report about Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election highlighted the role of Russian media organizations in spreading fake news and…

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Lotman’s Cultural Semiotics and the Political (New Book)

(Co-authored with A. Yatsyk) Yuri Lotman (1922-1993) was a prominent Russian intellectual and theorist. This book presents a new reading of his semiotic and philosophical legacy. The authors analyse Lotman's semiotics in a…

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The Origins of Dominant Parties: Building Authoritarian Institutions in Post-Soviet Russia [NEW BOOK]

Russia’s New Conventional Capability: Implications for Eurasia and Beyond

Lankina: Activists have learned to draw lessons from events of repression

Demand for Law and the Security of Property Rights: The Case of Post-Soviet Russia [NEW BOOK / ARTICLE]

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Russia Beyond Putin | Ten Essays

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Lotman’s Cultural Semiotics and the Political (New Book)