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Russia’s Syrian Campaign: Strategic Gambit or Regional Zugzwang?

March 8, 2016

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The Russian military campaign in Syria has been a major military and political event with significant regional and global consequences. It is post-Soviet Russia’s first openly-conducted…

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Gorenburg: The Russians are not in a position to project power globally, but have the capabilities to be a major player

(Maclean's) Little doubt remains now that U.S. foreign policy in Syria is failing spectacularly. It would have been less obvious even a few weeks ago. Back then, before Russia began…

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A Lost Year for Russia

(EDM) It is the dubious ceasefire in Syria that keeps Russia in the focus of global media attention these days, as if the outcome of this catastrophic civil war actually…

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Petrov: Russia’s Syria engagement is seen positively by Russian society

(NYTimes) MOSCOW — The partial truce that Russia and the United States have thrashed out in Syria capped something of a foreign policy trifecta for President Vladimir V. Putin, with the Kremlin strong-arming itself into a pivotal role in the…

Russia’s Policy on Syria after the Start of Military Engagement

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In the fall of 2015, Russia resolved to raise the stakes in Syria by launching an air campaign at the request of Damascus. The intervention was…

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For Moscow, Talks Are About Sowing Discord, not Solving Conflicts

(EDM) A ceasefire in Syria, which appeared possible if not probable in early February, has again turned out to be unreachable. And in hindsight, it is rather obvious that it…

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Yes, the U.S. and Russia can cooperate to end the Syrian civil war. Here’s why.

(WP) (Co-authored with Andrew Kydd and Fyodor Lukyanov) You probably wouldn’t know it from the news, but the United States and Russia might not be completely at odds over Syria. In a recent paper for theWorking…

Can Russia’s Peace Plan for Syria Work?

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) When it comes to Russia’s geopolitics, the international community has a lot to grumble about. In the course of a few short years, Moscow annexed Crimea,…

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The Right Way to Think About the Syria Talks

(Foreign Affairs) (Co-authored with Jeremy Shapiro) The suspension of the Syrian peace talks in Geneva seemed to validate observers’ cynicism and pessimism in the run-up to the negotiations. The talks, naysayers argue,…

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The PKK and PYD’s Kurdish Soviet Experiment in Syria and Turkey

(Daily Sabah) While the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) is hailed by some in the West almost as a pro-Western democratic militia fighting for a liberal pluralist oasis in the…

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Russia’s Syrian Campaign: Strategic Gambit or Regional Zugzwang?

Gorenburg: The Russians are not in a position to project power globally, but have the capabilities to be a major player

A Lost Year for Russia

Petrov: Russia’s Syria engagement is seen positively by Russian society

Russia’s Policy on Syria after the Start of Military Engagement

For Moscow, Talks Are About Sowing Discord, not Solving Conflicts

Yes, the U.S. and Russia can cooperate to end the Syrian civil war. Here’s why.

Can Russia’s Peace Plan for Syria Work?

The Right Way to Think About the Syria Talks

The PKK and PYD’s Kurdish Soviet Experiment in Syria and Turkey