The Impact of the Russo-Ukrainian War on the Broader Region is the latest eBook from PONARS Eurasia. Hosted by the Elliott School's Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES), 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. The Impact of the Russo-Ukrainian War on the Broader Region, is in lockstep with those missions.
The eBook examines how Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 upended its relations with neighbors in the region. Over the last three decades, countries across Eurasia have varied widely in how they have engaged with Moscow, with some advancing more favorable views (both at the elite and the societal levels), while others remaining highly critical of Russia’s often domineering approach. But, now in its third year, the war in Ukraine has forced every country to reevaluate its relationship with Russia. The challenges are many, from managing the effect of international sanctions (and Russia’s attempts to evade them), handling waves of Russian emigres and the societal tensions they create, and assessing new threats to their own sovereignty in light of Russia’s aggression. This eBook shifts the focus from Russia to the other countries in the Eurasia region and gives the floor to experts on and from these societies to analyze the broader fallout of the war in Ukraine. For more, download the complete manuscript online.