Good riddance to very bad rubbish: Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky, a veteran Russian politician who served as both ultranationalist firebrand and clownish provocateur in the Kremlin’s carefully managed pol
I know that there’s nothing particularly new about regimes using state power to reward supportive oligarchs and corporations while destroying opponents. But the current “global patrimonial
I interviewed Dr. Samuel Ramani about how the 2022 invasion of Ukraine fits into the broader picture of Russian politics and Russian interventions. Rahami recently finished his dissertation on the pol
This is a guest post by Amy Koski who manages the Center for Embryonic Cell and Gene Therapy at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. The work of gene therapy, and fertility broadly,
Israel cuddling up to Russia continues to go as well as you might expect: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy that he recommends Ukraine take the offer made by R
I recently released a “special” episode of Whiskey and IR Theory. Patrick Thaddeus Jackson and I reflect on the curious case of John Mearsheimer and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
I’ve spent the last six years arguing, in essence, that we should be looking at contemporary politics through the lens of the interwar period. As Alexander Cooley and I argued in a recent issue
This is a guest post by friend of the blog, Jamie Mayerfeld. I’ve been sitting on an unfinished draft piece on the same subject: the remarkably bad DSA IC statement on Ukraine. So when I saw tha