Orbis Summer 2020

Orbis
Summer 2020
Volume 64
Number 3

Guest Editors’ Corner Summer 2020

Research Article

Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Putin ‘Changes’ the Constitution

William R. Spiegelberger

What Does Putin Promise Russians? Russia’s Authoritarian Social Policy

Sarah Wilson Sokhey

Gazprom and Russian Natural Gas Policy in the First Two Decades of the 21st Century

Anna Mikulska

Russia and Central Asia: Putin’s Most Stable Region?

Maximilian Hess

The Role of the Military in Russian Politics and Foreign Policy Over the Past 20 Years

Anna Borshchevskaya

Russia’s Pivot to Asia: Between Rhetoric and Substance

Maria Shagina

“The M.P. for Russia”: Olga Novikova, William Gladstone, and the Crisis of 1878

Chris Miller

Fading Russian Influence in the Baltic States

Una Bergmane

Why Isn’t Latvia the “Next” Crimea? Reconsidering Ethnic Integration

Indra Ekmanis

Book Reviews

Are Chinese and American Interests Mutually Exclusive in Eurasia?

Paul Heer

Book Recommendations and Roundtable on The Death of Arms Control and the Birth of Putinism 3.0

Orbis Summer 2020