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of Ukraine’s decision to postpone signing an association agreement with the European Union. PONARS published 78 policy memos in both English and Russian in 2013-14, and its website received more than 6,000 page views each month. The program was awarded an $800,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and a $310,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 2013-14. The institute’s Central Asia Program, led by Marlene Laruelle, organized 28 seminars, policy workshops, and conferences in 2013-14. The program also launched an online peer-reviewed journal, Central Asian Affairs. In Spring 2014, it launched new initiatives on Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, recognizing their strategic importance to the region’s security. The Henry Luce Foundation awarded the program a $270,000 grant to study Islam in Central Asia, investigating religion and its effects on politics, security, economy, nation-building, and culture. The IERES Arctic Research Coordination Network— supported by the National Science Foundation and the Norwegian Research Council—is an international, multidisciplinary network of scholars who examine the links between political systems, resource development, migration, and climate change and how they affect the Arctic region. In June 2014, the program held its second annual workshop in St. Petersburg, Russia. This gathering of scientists, scholars, and policymakers examined transnational cooperation in the Arctic, as well as sustainable development in Russian cities near the Arctic.
A HOME FOR SCHOLARSHIP IERES faculty members analyzed the region in numerous books, publications, and research initiatives during 2013-14. Harris Mylonas’ The Politics of Nation Building: Making Co-National, Refugees, and Minorities
IERES Research Professor Marlene Laruelle discusses “Afghanistan After 2014” at an event at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
(Cambridge University Press, 2013) won the 2014 European Studies Book Award. Henry Hale wrote about Russia’s complex political regime in Problems of Post-Communism and Post-Soviet Affairs. Hope Harrison authored a chapter on “Berlin and the Cold War Struggle over Germany” in The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War (Routledge, 2014). Marlene Laruelle published Russia’s Arctic Strategies and the Future of the Far North (M.E. Sharpe, 2013), as well as several articles and policy papers. Robert Orttung analyzed a number of developments in Russia, from the 2014 Sochi Olympics in the journal Euxeinos, to the country’s increasingly restrictive media environment in the Journal of Democracy. IERES supports several important publications that advance understanding in and of the region. It publishes Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the successor states of the Soviet Union. In addition, the institute publishes Johnson’s Russia List, a prestigious online publication. This daily compilation of news, analysis, and opinion about Russia is considered a “must read” for scholars and policymakers focused on Russia. The institute also co-produces the bi-weekly Russian Analytical Digest, an analysis of events and trends within contemporary Russia that has more than 7,000 subscribers, and the Caucasus Analytical Digest, a monthly publication about Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
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