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Will American Liquefied Natural Gas Change the Russian Sanctions Game?
When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the United States reacted with its first round of sanctions against the country, with the Obama administration levying additional sanctions in December of 2016...
New-Generation Warfare and the Fringe Right: How Russian Interference Impacts Right-Wing Extremism in the US, Part I
Russian interference campaigns do not discriminate. They target the left as well as the right. But with right-wing violence the largest terrorist threat facing the US today, the potential impact...
New-Generation Warfare and the Fringe Right: How Russian Interference Impacts Right-Wing Extremism in the US, Part II
It is difficult to say whether anyone, Russia included, could purposely engineer another QAnon movement. However, QAnon is a masterclass in manipulating an audience by playing to its expectations and...
New-Generation Warfare and the Fringe Right: How Russian Interference Impacts Right-Wing Extremism in the US, Part III
The white supremacist fascination with Putin’s Russia is not alarming only because it represents a distasteful admiration for anti-democratic and authoritarian values but also because it presents a direct threat...
How NATO Destabilizes Europe
As NATO has expanded since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moscow’s sphere of influence has shrunk. The result is an environment that contributes to Russia's sense that...
Why the US Should Normalize Relations with Syria
US challenges in the Middle East are complex and years in the making. They will require equally complex and protracted solutions, for which success is by no means assured. But...
Putin Will Never Win Ukraine
He may be able to take Ukraine—eventually. But can he keep it? And at what cost?
The McCold War: Everything Old Is New Again
The 1990 opening of McDonald's in Moscow hardly heralded the "end of history," not did it usher in an era of peace and prosperity. But it did indicate that Soviet...
In Memory of Stephen Cohen
Earlier this year, our friend and colleague Stephen Cohen passed away. His contributions to the field of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies will be felt for years to come....
A Trial Against Racial Hatred: White Chauvinism and International Communism
On September 21st, Sean Guillory, host of the SRB Podcast and Digital Scholarship Curator in the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, joined...
The Difficulty Of Ending a Story: On the ‘Thick Novels
On September 23rd Schamma Schahadat, of the University of Tübingen, joined the Jordan Center for another talk with 19v, a working group on 19th century Russian culture. She discussed Tolstoy’s...
It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia
On October 6th, Fabrizio Fenghi of Brown University joined the Jordan Center to speak about the National Bolshevik Party (NBP) and it’s legacy in his talk, “It Will Be Fun...
Interrogating the Declining Significance of Pushkin’s Blackness: Henry James, Ivan Turgenev, and Literary Nationalism (with Korey Garibaldi and Emily Wang)
On October 14th, Professors Korey Garibaldi and Emily Wang, both of Notre Dame, joined the Jordan Center to speak about their collaborative work on race and literature in talk entitled...
NYC Russia Public Policy Series: Is it Time to Rethink Our Russia Policy?
On October 19th, the Jordan Center and the Harriman Institute convened for the latest in their New York City -- Russia Public Policy Series. Panelists included Rose Gottemoeller, Thomas Graham,...