Yuval Weber

Yuval Weber is Bren Chair of Russian Military and Political Strategy, Krulak Center, Marine Corps University. He previously was a visiting assistant professor of Government and Kathryn W. and Shelby Davis Research Fellow in the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, as well as an assistant professor in the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

Belarus: the slow birth, bright life and quick death of a cynical sideshow

In the shadow of Vladimir Putin’s current showdown with the West, this time over whether Ukraine poses a threat to Russia or if it will in the future, Alexander Lukashenka’s artificial border-migrant crisis with the European Union is…

Biden-Putin: the possible contours of a “cold” working relationship

Joe Biden is soon to become the fifth US president to face Vladimir Putin and the first to enter the presidency without the expectation of improving relations with his Russian counterpart. Yet the possibility of a working relationship,…

Putin’s bad 2020

2020 should have been a great year for Vladimir Putin, but, like for so many other people with big plans for this year, it is ending quite disappointingly. The year promised much in the way of maintaining Putin in power for years to come.…

Putin, now and forever

Vladimir Putin has lasted twenty years and counting in the Kremlin by following the tried-and-tested rules of Russian politics: convincing his elites that life with him is better than any alternative existence without him, mobilizing the…

The potential and limitations of Sino-Russian cooperation

Relations between Russia and China may be at their warmest since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, whose 70th anniversary on October 1 prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin to remind Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang,…

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