Policy reports & briefings

Most Recent

• Eiki Berg and Kristel Vits. Why the International Community Should be More Accommodative to De Facto States. PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo, 565, January 2019.
• Eiki Berg and Kristel Vits. The Do-or-Die Dilemma Facing Post-Soviet De Facto States, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 527, May 2018.
• Andrey Makarychev. Narva as a Cultural Borderland: Estonian, European, Russophone, Russian Analytical Digest No. 228, November 2018.
• Andrey Makarychev. Russian (In)Security : Cultures, Meanings and Contexts, Security in Transition Working Paper, SiT/DP/07/16.
• Andrey Makarychev, Stefano Braghiroli. “Russia “Understanders” in Europe: Discourses, Communication, Consequences“, PONARS-Eurasia Policy Memo No. 435, August 2016. [version in Russian]
• Andrey Makarychev. “The Limits to Russian Soft Power in Georgia“, PONARS-Eurasia Policy Memo No. 412, January 2016. [version in Russian]
• Viacheslav Morozov, Xymena Kurowska, and Anatoly Reshetnikov. Why Russia’s Strategic Deception Is Popular: The Cultural Appeal of the Trickster, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 554, December 2018.
• Viacheslav Morozov. Russia: Foreign Policy of a Country In-Between. CIPS Blog, 21.01.2018.
• Viacheslav Morozov. “What Is the Meaning of “National” in the Russian Debate about the National Interest?”, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 414, January 2016. [version in Russian]

Until 2015

• Berg, E. 2014. Do They Really Have a Choice? Eastern Partnership States Between the EU and Russia. The Vilnius Moment. PONARS Eurasia Policy Perspectives, March 2014.
• Berg, E. and M. Mölder 2012. ‘Janus-Faced Human Security Discourse: EU and Russia Talking Past Each Other in Kosovo and the Caucasus?’, CEURUS EU-Russia Papers, No. 4.
• Belyi, A. 2014. “EU energy security in the multipolar world” and “EU External energy policies” both within the framework programme of the European Commission on “EU Policies in Natural Resources” (Polinares), available at www.polinares.eu
• Chillaud, M. Territorial Disarmament in Northern Europe: The Epilogue of a Success Story? SIPRI Policy Paper No. 13, 2006 (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
• Ehin, P., M. Solvak, K. Vassil, R. Taagepera, Ü. Madise, P. Vinkel. “Independent candidates in National and European Elections”. Study prepared for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament ( February 11, 2013).
• Ehin, P. One of the co-authors of the study „Democratic control in the Member States of the European Council and Euro zone summits» prepared for the European Parliament (Principal investigators: W.Wessels, O. Rozenberg), October 2012.
• Ehin, P. “The selection of candidates for the European Parliament by national parties in Estonia and the impact of European political parties”, Standard Briefing for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament, January 31, 2009.
• Ehin, P. “Implementation of the Four Common Spaces – Space of Freedom, Security and Justice.” Standard Briefing for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, September 22, 2008.
• Ehin, P. and M. Nahtigal, “Implementation of the ENPI: analysis of the EU’s assistance to Russia,” Standard Briefing for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, 3 August 2008.
• Ehin, P., B. Gültekin-Punsmann and A. Kasekamp. “Analysis of the EU’s assistance to Georgia,” Standard Briefing for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, 3 August 2008.
• Ehin, P. and Graham Avery, “The Eastern EU neighbourhood – an area of competing policies: shared neighbourhood between the EU and Russia.” Standard Briefing for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, 12 September 2007.
• Ehin, P. et al, “EU-related training needs of Estonian civil servants participating in the EU decision-making process, 2008-2012,“ a study commissioned by the State Chancellery of Estonia, 2008.
• Ehin, P, Biannual reports on Estonia’s positions regarding the deepening and widening of the EU for the EU-25/27 Watch, directed by the Institut für Europäische Politik in Berlin.
• Berg, E. and P. Ehin, Series of reports on expected consequences of Schengen accession 2002-2003, Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw, 2002.
• Golunov, S.V. “Why “Reputation” is Irrelevant in Contemporary Russian Politics”. PONARS Policy Memo no. 221, 2012.
• Golunov, S.V. “Patriotic Upbringing in Russia: Can It Produce Good Citizens?”. PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo no 161, 2011.
• Golunov, S.V. “The Perennial Partnership. The Global Economic Crisis and Russian-Kazakh Relations”. PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo no 71, 2009.
• Golunov, S.V. “EU-Russian Border Security: Stereotypes and Realities”. PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo no 16, 2008.
• Morozov, V. “Kazakhstan and the “Russian World”: Is a New Intervention on the Horizon?”, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 364, June 2015. [version in Russian]
• Morozov, V. “Nationalization of the Elites’ and its Impact on Russian Foreign Policy”, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 251, June 2013. [version in Russian]
• Morozov, V. “The Passive Majority in Russian Politics: Can Quality Beat Quantity?”, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 212, September 2012. [version in Russian]
• Morozov, V. “Of Jackals and Hamsters: Dividing Lines in Russian Politics and the Prospects for Democratization”, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 193, June 2012. [version in Russian]
• Morozov, V. “No Enemy at the Gate: An Unusual Election Cycle in Russia”, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 173, September 2011.
• Morozov, V. “What Happened on Manezh Square? Ideology, Institutions, and Myths Regarding the Anti-Migrant Riots of December 2010”, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 152, May 2011.
• Morozov, V. “Dmitry Medvedev’s Conservative Modernization: Reflections on the Yaroslavl Speech”, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 134, October 2010.
• Morozov, V. “Modernizing Sovereign Democracy? Russian Political Thinking and the Future of the ‘Reset’”, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 130, October 2010.
• Morozov, V. “Protecting ‘Our’ History: Politics, Memory, and the Russian State”, PONARS-Eurasia Policy Memo No. 64, in PONARS-Eurasia Policy Conference, Washington, D. C., September 25, 2009, Washington: Georgetown University, 2009, pp. 33–36.
• Morozov, V. “On a Collision Course: The EU and Russia Revisit Europe’s Recent Past”, PONARS-Eurasia Policy Memo No. 20, September 2008.
• Morozov, V. “The Forced Choice between Russia and the West: The Geopolitics of Alienation”, PONARS Policy Conference. Policy Memos No. 327 Washington, D.C., February 4, 2005. Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies, January 2005, pp. 9–13.
• Morozov, V. “Putin’s westernization and the future of Russia’s relations with Europe”, in The New North of Europe. Final Conference, Helsinki, 8 October 2002. Policy Memos, Helsinki: Ulkopoliittinen instituutti; Bonn: Institut fur Europäische Politik, 2002, pp. 68–71.
• Makarychev, A. 2015. ‘Russia’s policies in the South Caucacus after the crisis in Ukraine: the vulnerabilities of realism.’ V. Gasimli and K. Kakatchia, eds. The South Caucasus between integration and fragmentation. Brussels/Baku: European Policy Centre/Centre for Strategic Studies; available here
• Makarychev, A. “Reassembling Lands or Reconnecting People? Geopolitics and Biopower in Russia’s Neighborhood Policy“, PONARS-Eurasia Policy Memo No. 367, July 2015. [version in Russian]
• Makarychev, A. “The Crisis in Ukraine and the Baltic Sea Region: A Spillover of the Conflict?“, PONARS-Eurasia Policy Memo No. 345, September 2014. [version in Russian]
• Makarychev, A., Devyatkov, A. “The EU in Eastern Europe: Has Normative Power Become Geopolitical?“, PONARS-Eurasia Policy Memo No. 310, February 2014. [version in Russian]
• Makarychev, A. “The Politics of Sports Mega-Events in Russia: Kazan, Sochi, and Beyond“, PONARS-Eurasia Policy Memo No. 288, September 2013. [version in Russian]
• Mälksoo, M. and R. Kaljurand. “From de-securitisation to re-securitisation: sub-regional multilateralism around the Baltic Sea”, International Center for Defence Studies Analysis (March 2009); available here