Insights

Understanding Russia’s needs and motivations, as Secretary Shultz advocated, can help us shift towards interest-based negotiations, write Danny Stoian and Nora Cyra.

Harvard experts game out various scenarios, looking at what Putin stands to gain and lose from an invasion of Ukraine.

Anti-Russian belligerence will not help Georgia, but nor will the current government’s attempts to avoid conflict at any cost, writes Stephen Jones.

An influx of migrants intensified the Law and Justice regime’s assault on the rule of law while illuminating the precarious position of Catholic Church, writes REECA student Abigail Skalka.

Executive Director Alexandra Vacroux spoke with The Indicator from Planet Money about what a total ban from the SWIFT bank messaging system would mean for Russia’s economy.

Davis Center Executive Director Alexandra Vacroux sorts through possible scenarios amid Moscow-U.S. tension.

Senior Fellow Nargis Kassenova contemplates Kazakhstan after the Nazarbayev era in a piece for Foreign Affairs.

Putin is a politician and leader, not an academician. His conservatism should be judged accordingly, writes Professor Timothy Colton.

Senior Fellow Nargis Kassenova argues that despite recent turmoil, it would be wrong to presume that the past three decades of efforts to build Kazakh statehood are now on the verge of evaporating.