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UkraineAlert

Sep 5, 2017

Parliament Is the Problem in Ukraine

By Peter Dickinson

September marks the beginning of season 48 of “Game of Chairs,” otherwise known as the Ukrainian parliament. As the country’s MPs return for the autumn parliamentary session, few will be tuning in. While the palace intrigues and Machiavellian plot twists of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” makes for compulsive viewing, the ideological ambiguity and backroom dealing […]

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Sep 4, 2017

How to Finish the Revolution in Ukraine

By Olena Sotnyk

More than three years after the Euromaidan, Ukraine still hasn’t successfully prosecuted any high-level crooks, and we’ve got plenty here. At Stanford University’s Draper Hills Summer Fellowship this summer, we examined how to catch a “big fish” and looked at a case study in Indonesia, where the country’s anticorruption commission had just begun. Despite being […]

Ukraine

In the News

Sep 3, 2017

Fishman Joins Al Jazeera to Discuss US-Russia Diplomatic Relations

By Edward Fishman

Watch the full discussion here.

Russia

In the News

Sep 1, 2017

Shaffer in Institute for Development and International Relations: The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Russia – US Flashpoint

By Brenda Shaffer

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Sep 1, 2017

Agent of Influence: Should Russia’s RT Register as a Foreign Agent?

By Elena Postnikova

The US Congress enacted the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA) to ensure that the American people were aware when foreign governments funded media sources; at the time, their concerns focused on the Nazi regime in Germany. Today, this issue has resurfaced with concerns about the Russian propaganda outlet RT (formerly Russia Today). RT […]

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In the News

Sep 1, 2017

LeBaron in the Foreign Service Journal: A New Citizen of London Shines on the Other Side of the Thames

By Richard LeBaron

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Aug 31, 2017

Vershbow in European Leadership Network: The Target of New US Sanctions is Russia, Not Europe

By Alexander Vershbow

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Russia

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Aug 31, 2017

Fried Quoted in the Atlantic on US-Russia Tensions

By Daniel Fried

Read the full article here.

Russia

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Aug 30, 2017

Kroenig in Defence 24: NATO Should Recognize the Russian Missile Threat to Europe

By Matthew Kroenig

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UkraineAlert

Aug 30, 2017

Ukraine Needs Arms, Not Cheap Arguments

By John E. Herbst

The United States is seriously considering giving Ukraine lethal defensive weapons, and this is the right move. Over the last month, Michael Brendan Dougherty and I have debated this issue here and here. In his latest response, Dougherty tries to rack up a quick win. He claims that experts issued a report arguing for arming Ukraine […]

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