by Robert Wilson | Apr 27, 2020 | American University
President Vladimir Putin is more vulnerable than some may realize. By over-relying on oil and natural gas production to fund social welfare programs, Putin has exposed that his grip on power is finite, threatened by the eventual shift to clean and renewable energy. In...
by Alexandra Ross | Apr 2, 2020 | Boston University
2024. The year Vladimir Putin is supposed to step down from power after more than two decades of serving as both President and Prime Minister. After rising to power in the 1990s as a former-KGB-spy-turned-deputy-mayor, Putin was named Prime Minister in 1999....
by Martine Bjoernstad | Feb 12, 2020 | Boston University
Since Vladimir Putin was re-elected as President of Russia in 2018 questions have arisen as to what role he will play in the Russian government once his presidential term ends in 2024. In his State of the Nation address last month, President Putin seems to have...
by Ian Mcgrail | Oct 23, 2019 | Salem State University
The departure of US forces from Syria serves as a capitulation to authoritarian forces and as a death knell to any hope of democratic peace brokering. President Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops from Syria represents a betrayal of American alliances and...
by Ian Bohn | May 7, 2019 | University of Chicago
Vladimir Putin used strategies that would fall under the categories of stealth authoritarianism or executive aggrandizement to muzzle the Russian media throughout the early 2000s, as established by Scott Gehlbach [1]. What is interesting is that in recent years, we...
