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Republicans Saved Democracy Once. Will They Do It Again?
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Despite different political and historical contexts, the playbook these personalist leaders use to dismantle democracy has been identical....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Joseph Wright & Erica Frantz
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Putin’s Point of No Return
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The United States and Europe must invest in resisting Russia now or pay a far greater cost later....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Michael Kofman
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The Axis of Upheaval
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The West has been too quick to dismiss the coordination among China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Richard Fontaine
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Congress Can Help Ukraine With Confiscated Iranian Weapons
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Sending more Iranian weapons to Ukraine would be an effective complement to a larger aid effort at almost no additional cost to the U.S. taxpayer....
By Jonathan Lord & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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What NATO allies must do to prepare for Russian aggression
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While it’s expensive to do what’s necessary to deter major aggression, it would be far more expensive to fight a major war if deterrence fails....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Greg Weaver
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Why Trump’s control of the Republican Party is bad for democracy
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As former President Donald Trump edges closer to clinching the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, our political science research has shown that a second Trump preside...
By Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Joseph Wright
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The Treacherous Path to a Better Russia
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The first barrier to a post-Putin Russia is, of course, Putin himself....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Erica Frantz
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Putin’s Forever War
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More than a year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a grim reality has settled in: the war will not end soon. Despite the heavy fighting in and around the eastern city of Bak...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Erica Frantz
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The West Has Captured Thousands of Iranian Weapons. Send Them to Ukraine.
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Sending Iran’s weapons to Ukraine advances the mission in ways both tangible and symbolic. Washington should move without delay....
By Jonathan Lord & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Personalist Strongmen: Challenges and Trends
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Personalist authoritarianism is harmful to global democracy, as these regimes are the least likely form of dictatorship to democratize upon their collapse....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Erica Frantz
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Russia’s Dangerous Decline
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Despite Russia’s conventional losses in Ukraine, its nuclear arsenal is a logical offset to its conventional vulnerability and poses a credible threat....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Michael Kofman
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In El Salvador and Elsewhere, Leaders Find Ways to Break Term Limits
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Limits to executive time in office help ensure regular, institutionalized rotation of leadership....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz & Joseph Wright
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Russia Is Down. But It’s Not Out.
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Despite its failures in Ukraine, Russia retains the capacity and the will to continue to seriously challenge the United States and Europe....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Michael Kofman
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Is Russia Better Off Without Putin? The Answer is Changing.
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To figure out whether we would be better off without Putin, though, we first need to weigh something else: How would Putin’s departure from power affect Russia? Would a leader...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Erica Frantz
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After Putin: Lessons from Autocratic Leadership Transitions
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It is now impossible to imagine that there could be any substantive improvement in US-Russia relations while Putin remains in power....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Erica Frantz
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Why Putin Probably Won’t Give Up Anytime Soon
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Putin’s own penchant for risk and the patterns evident in other authoritarian regimes suggest that doubling down to secure his maximalist aims in Ukraine is the more likely ou...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The Beginning of the End for Putin?
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The news of the war and the economic ramifications that followed have led Russians to see both Putin and Russia differently; Russia is not the same today as it was last week....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The Myth of Russian Decline: Why Moscow Will Be a Persistent Power
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Rather than viewing Russia as a declining power, U.S. leaders should see it as a persistent one—and have a frank conversation about the country’s true capabilities and vulnera...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Michael Kofman
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How Personalist Politics is Changing Democracies
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This rapid increase is alarming: Personalist rule brings with it a host of negative outcomes compared to other types of authoritarian systems....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Carisa Nietsche, Erica Frantz & Joseph Wright
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The Stakes are High
Underneath the veneer of goodwill remain persistent European concerns about the reliability of the United States as a partner, threatening to weaken transatlantic cooperation....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Carisa Nietsche
