🚨 New Publication🚨 I am beyond excited to announce that I have published "The Russian Economy" with @agendapub!

Thread follows, but big picture: it explains Russian political culture and when and why Russian leaders begin, but never see through economic reform efforts. It is blurbed by the inimitable @MarkGaleotti and @crmiller1 (I'd upload the picture of their comments but media isn't loading -- argh!)

It can be ordered through @ColumbiaUP (cup.columbia.edu/book/the-russi…) in North America and Agenda's site in the UK (agendapub.com/page/detail/th…)

.@Aspeniaonline column on "the possible contours of a 'cold' working relationship" between Biden and Putin is up and I argue that for two reasons that there's a chance things *won't* get worse. (1/n)

aspeniaonline.it/biden-putin-th… Biden has three immediate foreign policy objectives: (better faith) arms control negotiations, reentering JCPOA, and rejoining Paris Climate Accords. All line up w/ Russian interests & do not need any further RU support, so no immediate horse-trading necessary. (2/n)

New publication 📃 "Not So Private Military and Security Companies: Wagner Group and Russian Prosecution of Great Power Politics and short explainer 🧵. Published by @CSIS and @CSISRussia and sponsored by @US_EUCOM, it is available here: csis.org/blogs/post-sov…. This was the outgrowth of a #BruteCast held by @TheKrulakCenter @MCUFoundation and available here: on how to think about the informality of Russian private military and security companies (PMSCs)