Tracking political violence in Central Asia
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Foreign policy experts on post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia propose a possible roadmap to stability for the region between Russia and the West
This week on War & Peace, Olga Oliker and Hugh Pope talk to Crisis Group’s South Caucasus expert Olesya Vartanyan about the conflict in and over Nagorno-Karabakh, a year on from a Russian-brokered ceasefire that put an end to renewed large-scale fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Marlene Laruelle. Marlene Laruelle, director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University, specializes in the rise of populist and illiberal movements in post-Soviet Eurasia, Europe, and the U.S. Trained in political philosophy, she explores how nationalism and conservative values are becoming mainstream in different cultural contexts. She focuses on Russia's ideological landscape and its outreach abroad. She has also been studying Central Asia's nationhood and regional environment, as well as Russia's Arctic policy. She has been ...