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In Helsinki, Putin Can Grant Trump Great Success, of Sorts

Date de publication
03 July 2018
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The July 16, 2018, face-to-face between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is both entirely natural and extremely unconventional, very encouraging and deeply disturbing.

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Putinism: A Praetorian System?

Date de publication
08 March 2018
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Almost 20 years after Vladimir Putin's accession to the presidency in 2000, how should the Russian political system be defined?

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Beyond ‘pro’ and ‘anti’ Putin: Debating Russia Policies in France and Germany

Date de publication
31 January 2018
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Attitudes vis-à-vis Russia expressed in the public sphere are heterogeneous, in France more so than in Germany. In both France and Germany, the general public is by and large skeptical of Vladimir Putin and his policies. The picture is more diverse in the political realm. In Germany, there (still) is an approach that might be qualified as “mainstream”. The French debate, in turn, is highly fragmented.

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Russia's election interference has undermined American democracy

Date de publication
12 December 2017
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In January 2017, U.S. intelligence agencies confirmed that Russia had indeed attempted to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election campaign. This effort took two forms: on the one hand, beginning in the Summer of 2016, the hacking and publication of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails, in order to hurt the Democratic candidacy; and on the other hand, an aggressive communication campaign aimed at disrupting the electoral process in favor of Donald Trump.

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European Security – Challenges at the Societal Level

Date de publication
08 December 2016
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Relations between Russia and the West have deteriorated dramatically in recent years. The institutional foundations of cooperative security in Europe and the rules and principles they represent are rapidly disappearing. 

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Russia's Economic Modernization: The Causes of a Failure

Date de publication
30 September 2016
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In this short study of attempts that have been made in recent years to modernize the Russian economy, the author explains why they have all ended in failure. Unlike most experts, he focuses on politics and ideology.

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The Far Right in the Conflict between Russia and Ukraine

Date de publication
31 July 2016
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From the very beginning, the armed conflict that broke out in the Donbass in the spring of 2014 drew in right-wing radicals, on the Ukrainian as well as on the Russian side. Organised ultra-nationalist groups and individual activists established their own units of volunteers or joined existing ones.

War’s Indirection or the Return of the Limited War

Date de publication
01 December 2015
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Over the last few years both the United States and Russia seem to have changed their conception of how to deploy force. 

The Atlantic Partnership’s Trial of Multipolarity: End of Illusions

Date de publication
01 December 2015
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European solidarity seems to be breaking down just as Europe is becoming a lesser factor in American strategy and alongside the proliferation of divergent poles affirming the differences of interests on the international scene. 

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The German OSCE Chairmanship in 2016: Towards a renewed dialogue with Russia?

Date de publication
23 November 2015
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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) represents the perfect framework for discussion of pan-European security issues thanks to its unique composition - fifty-seven member states of the Euro-Atlantic sphere, including the United States and Russia. The OSCE remains indeed one of the few forums of institutionalized dialogue between Western countries and Moscow and the only one to also include Washington. 

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