Sam Greene
Director of Democratic Resilience @CEPA. Professor @KingsRussia. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People, @yalebooks. ๐ฌ๐ง/๐บ๐ธ
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As Russia's military commissariats begin rounding up reservists for the front, we're seeing fairly clear -- if inevitably anecdotal -- evidence that the call-up is falling hardest...
This is an interesting an important partial rebuttal to my earlier thread, and to many of us who have been arguing that the US should not negotiate โabout Ukraine without Ukraineโ....
Six months of war. Six months of people calling for negotiations with Moscow. Six months of futility. A quick ๐งต in response to the latest from Anatol Lieven. /1 https://t.co/Y6w...
So, I'm increasingly seeing stories like this one, together with takes from foreign policy analysts along the lines of "the West lacks a strategy for deterring Russia." (You know w...
As a comparative political scientist/sociologist, Iโve always found IR a problematic discipline: IR theories involve a lot of ideology. In an excellent thread, @mcfaul acknowledge...
We can and should use our imaginations to design a future more secure than our present. We should not imagine that any of our designs will work miracles. The latest TL;DRussia jus...
The inconvenient truth of the present crisis is that behind all the rhetoric about NATO, Moscow's beef is fundamentally with the EU. https://t.co/taWhJV0sqS
Now we know why Moscow wanted a written response to its security 'treaties': unwritten responses don't leak.
The Belarusians who rose up against Lukashenka were not differentiated along clearly discernible socio-demographic, ethnic, linguistic, or regional lines. They were, however, separ...
Ok. Deep breath. Time for a grain or two of salt. TL;DR: This can be real and mod quite what it seems at the same time. https://t.co/58HpYPN7tX
@bneeditor Ben, sorry, but the comparison strains credulity. Thereโs plenty of room for not liking policy here, but Iraq was invaded by the US. Thereโs simply no scenario in which...
So, this won't go down in history as a sterling press conference. However, Biden does make it crystal clear that if war happens, it will be entirely of Putin's choosing. It's hard...