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VIRTUAL EVENT. Book Talk. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West by Catherine Belton

Tuesday, June 30, 2020 - 12:00pm EDT

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar (register here) and streamed via YouTube Live. Please join us for a talk with journalist Catherine Belton, author of the book Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 23, 2020), joined by discussant Timothy Frye, Marshall Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Politics, Department of Political Science, Columbia University. Moderated by Alexander Cooley, Director, Harriman Institute.

Mark Andryczyk on the Evolution of Ukrainian Culture

Monday, June 1, 2020

Mark Andryczyk, Associate Research Scholar, Ukrainian Studies Program, traces independent Ukraine's cultural trajectory at Eurasianet.org.

David Stark Publishes "Tested and Being Tested in Pandemic Times" in Sociologica

Monday, June 1, 2020

David Stark (Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology) published his article "Testing and Being Tested in Pandemic Times" in the May 2020 issue of the journal Sociologica.

Alexander Cooley on Trump's Decision to Pull out of the WHO

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Harriman Director Alexander Cooley, with co-author Daniel Nexon, published "Trump Says the U.S. Will Pull Out of the World Health Organization. China Will Happily Fill the Void," on the Washington Post's Monkey Cage Blog. The authors draw on arguments from their new book, Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order. This is an updated version of an article published in April 2020.

VIRTUAL EVENT. Matvei Yankelevich's New Translation of Pushkin's Feast During the Plague

Friday, June 5, 2020 - 3:00pm EDT

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Please join us for a discussion with translator Matvei Yankelevich, who will read his translation of Pushkin's 1830 play Feast During the Plague (Пир во время чумы). Professor Mark Lipovetsky (Slavic Department) will moderate the discussion.

COVID-19 Guide for the Columbia Community

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

The Columbia University COVID-19 Resource Guide gathers information on all aspects of the coronavirus and its effects. Topics range from Health FAQs and Health Advisories to information about teaching and learning remotely and current research.

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Working Papers

Tsveta Petrova, "From Solidarity to Survival: The Motivational Life Cycle of Transnational Activism"

Jesse Dillon Savage, "Political Survival and International Hierarchy: Evidence from Post-Soviet Georgia"

Fredrik M. Sjoberg, "Making Voters Count: Evidence from Field Experiments about the Efficacy of Domestic Election Observation (Harriman Working Paper, no. 1)

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