Full text of the 2024 Strategy for Countering Extremism in the Russian Federation (in Russian.) 2024 Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence Full text of the ...

This is a summary of an article originally published by Foreign Policy, with the subheading "Seven things for Zelenskyy to keep in mind as cease-fire negotiations start." The author writes: In ...

Iran and its nuclear program: "Don’t Trust Russia to Mediate the Iran Nuclear Deal," Jonathan Lord, FP, 03.12.25. This month, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to mediate a new nuclear agreement ...

On the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, former Ukrainian foreign minister and senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Dmytro Kuleba delivered the ...

Russia Matters is a project launched in 2016 by Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and made possible with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York and ...

This is a selection from an essay originally published by International Security, Winter 2025. I first review the theory of preventive war and briefly consider what scholars believe about its ...

At the Pentagon, the hotline system is located at the National Military Command Center. The hotline was first used by the United States and Russia in 1967 during the Six-Day War. Meant to avoid war, ...

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Research interests include: globalization and accountability; social movements; gender politics; patriotism and militarism; and state-building in the post-communist region. Courses in comparative ...