The Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia) is a network of over 140 academics, mainly from North America and post-Soviet Eurasia, advancing new approaches to research on security, politics, economics, and society in Russia and Eurasia. Its core missions are to connect scholarship to policy on and in Russia and Eurasia and to foster a community, especially of mid-career and rising scholars, committed to developing policy-relevant and collaborative research.
PONARS Eurasia is located at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and is co-directed by Henry E. Hale and Marlene Laruelle. Cory Welt served as co-director until 2016. From 2007-2009, the program was based at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Between 2001-2007, the Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS, the precursor to PONARS Eurasia) was part of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The program was founded at Harvard University in the late 1990s and housed at the Council on Foreign Relations from 2000-2001. PONARS Eurasia is supported by Carnegie Corporation of New York and The George Washington University/IERES.
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New Voices on Eurasia
Elizabeth Plantan, Stetson University
Elizabeth Plantan is an assistant professor of political science at Stetson University. Her research interests encompass the global study of civil society, authoritarian regimes, and environmental affairs, with a focus on the comparative and international politics of China and Russia.
Thursday, October 5th, 2023
4:00pm-5:00pm
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E St NW
Opportunities and Constraints for Russian Activists-in-Exile after Russia’s 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
4:00pm-5:00pm
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E St NW
Opportunities and Constraints for Russian Activists-in-Exile after Russia’s 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
After Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Russian citizens opposing the war or afraid of its impacts relocated abroad.
Among this wave of emigrants is a subpopulation of Russian activists who were involved in anti-regime or oppositional activism before their “exit.”
- How are these activists continuing their activism from abroad?
- How do they interact with policymakers and civil society actors in their host countries? How are those interactions shaped by the political, institutional, and legal environment?
- Finally, how are international NGOs and foundations interacting with this group of new exiled activists?
- The findings identify important differences in host country political opportunity structures which constrain or enable activist networks, their access to political institutions, and their choice of tactics.
- The project also reveals how INGOs and foundations are pivoting their funding strategies in response both to authoritarian restrictions and to new opportunities for collaboration with exiled activists.
- This research not only provides insight into Russian activism abroad, but also contributes to scholarship on authoritarianism, transnational activism, philanthropy, and diaspora politics. It will also be of interest to policymakers and practitioners interested in better understanding or supporting this new wave of Russian activists abroad.
Elizabeth Plantan is an assistant professor of political science at Stetson University. Her research interests encompass the global study of civil society, authoritarian regimes, and environmental affairs, with a focus on the comparative and international politics of China and Russia.
Previously, she was a 2022-2023 Wilson China Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC and 2018-2020 China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School.
Her research has been published in Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, Post-Soviet Affairs, and Russian Politics, among other venues.
She has also published op-eds and public-facing scholarship in The New York Times, The Washington Post, ChinaFile, Russian Analytical Digest, and elsewhere. She holds an M.A. & Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.
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