
Why Orbán Won Again
Apr 5, 2022 & say that Hungary’s strongman can rely on more than media control and a rigged electoral system.
Mitchell A. Orenstein, Professor of Russian and East European Studies and Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War (Oxford University Press, 2019.
Apr 5, 2022 & say that Hungary’s strongman can rely on more than media control and a rigged electoral system.
Nov 8, 2021 & argue that low inoculation rates reflect not the legacy of communism, but rather the legacy of its collapse.
Aug 4, 2020 & ask whether Aleksandr Lukashenko, Belarus’s first and only president since 1994, has finally met his match.
Nov 1, 2019 & note that in many post-communist countries, GDP per capita remains below its level 30 years ago.
May 24, 2019 reviews three recent books on the origins and conduct of the Kremlin’s political war against the West.
Nearly three months after Russia launched its invasion, Western countries appear more committed than ever to Ukraine’s defense, and, in some quarters, to Russia’s defeat. We asked PS commentators what outcome the West, Russia, and Ukrainians themselves can realistically expect.