The Next Clash of Ideas?
(CIRSD) At the start of the 2020s, domestic political debates within democratic societies are heating up and at times radicalizing. The middle ground in such debates has been waning for…
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Event (Feb. 4): The Storming of the US Capitol: Views from Eurasia with Dubovyk, Omelicheva, Pisano, Schatz, and Troitskiy
(PONARS Eurasia and IERES) On January 6, 2021, protestors carried out a violent attack at the US Capitol in an attempt to overturn Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 United States…
The Power of Augmented Reality: How Narratives Impacted U.S.-Russian Arms Control Negotiations
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Since the end of World War II, relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, subsequently Russia, have been one of the major factors defining the…
Why U.S.-Russian arms control can succeed even in a climate of confrontation
(Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) Abstract: The onset of a crisis in US-Russian and global arms control has generated manifold proposals on ways to rejuvenate productive negotiations on weapons cuts and…
Focal Points in Arms Control
(Palgrave Macmillan) Abstract: This chapter scrutinizes one particularly prominent type of international negotiations: arms control. The author seeks to establish the imprint of focal points on arms control, and to determine…
Statecraft Overachievement: Sources of Scares in U.S.-Russian Relations
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Actors in world politics often claim positions in the global pecking order on the basis of their ability to achieve desired outcomes in major areas of interest.…
Troitskiy: A wedge is being driven between Turkey and the United States as well as NATO in general with the S-400 deal
(Al-Monitor) MOSCOW — This week will see the completed delivery of the first stage of Russian S-400 missile system components to Turkey. As was reported by RIA Novosti, over the course of this supply phase Ankara will receive launching…
The Emerging Great Power Politics and Regionalism: Structuring Effective Regional Conflict Management
(Global Policy) Abstract: The intensifying rivalry between the leading global powers (the United States and the European Union) on one hand, and the aspiring nations (such as China, Russia, India, Turkey,…
Troitskiy on the Russia-Georgia war in 2008
(U.S.-Russia Relations: Quest for Stability) The Soviet collapse fueled violent separatism within Georgia. Two of its semi-autonomous regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, declared independence and successfully sought Moscow’s informal patronage. In…
When is ‘Enough’ Enough? Uncertainty in Negotiation
(Cambridge University Press) Troitskiy’s chapter, “When is ‘Enough’ Enough? Uncertainty in Negotiation,” in William Zartman’s edited volume How Negotiations End, looks at the Gorbachev/Kohl/Baker 1990 “NATO non-enlargement” negotiations, the Minsk agreements on eastern Ukraine,…