Geopolitics & Worlds

What a Week of Talks Between Russia and the West Revealed (Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center)

Moscow’s demands of the United States and NATO are in fact the strategic goals of Russian policy in Europe. If Russia cannot achieve them...

Former Post-USSR (Alexander Iskandaryan, Valdai Discussion Club)

The post-Soviet space exists as long as there are disputes about it. But it is spreading and turning into a former post-Soviet space right before our eyes; before the eyes...

Kazakhstan Protests Involve Russians, Adding to Moscow’s Worries About Stability (Paul Goble, The Jamestown Foundation)

Moscow was alarmed by the protests in Kazakhstan earlier this month primarily because they represented an attack of the population against the regime, something...

Social Unrest in Kazakhstan Turns Violent, Ends Nazarbayev Era (Serik Rymbetov, The Jamestown Foundation)

The inaugural week of the new year ushered in a period of unprecedented instability for Kazakhstan, Central Asia’s largest economy. The country has long...

Russian Troops Deploy to Belarus With Fanfare (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

Tensions have been flying high between Moscow and the West for months, with little prospect currently of imminent de-escalation. Stress is also mounting between...

Pakistan’s ‘Praetorian’ state is a troubling model for a Taliban-led Afghanistan (Ben Acheson, Atlantic Council)

Humanitarian catastrophe. Frozen assets. International recognition of the Taliban. These issues dominate the current discussion about Afghanistan’s future—with a warranted sense of urgency, given...

By intervening in Kazakhstan, Russia strengthens its hand in China’s energy market (Paddy Ryan, Atlantic Council)

As a popular uprising ousted Nursultan Nazarbayev, a thirty-year strongman ruler-turned eminence gris, Kazakhstan stood on the precipice of revolution. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s decision to solicit...

How Europe can reclaim its voice in the Russia crisis (Ana Palacio, El Pais, Atlantic Council)

“There will be no peace in Europe if the States are reconstituted on the basis of national sovereignty.” This warning by Jean Monnet—the crux...

Will Russia make a military move against Ukraine? Follow these clues (Atlantic Council)

For weeks, the eyes of the world have been on a Russian troop buildup near Ukraine, as Western officials struggle to decipher Russian President...

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