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Daniel Treisman

Strategy & Conflict May/June 2016 Comment

Why Putin Took Crimea

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea was an improvisation designed to achieve limited aims during a moment of crisis in Ukraine.

Daniel Treisman

Nothing to see here: a Russian serviceman in Crimea, March 2014. The question of why Putin decided to annex the territory is of more than historical interest.

Economic Development November/December 2014 Essay

Normal Countries

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, critics say postcommunist reforms have failed. But the evidence says otherwise. Transition states in Europe and...

Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman

The new normal: voting in Veresegyhaz, Hungary, April 2014.

Political Development Mar 5, 2014 Snapshot

Watching Putin in Moscow

Putin seems to have embraced anti-Western nationalism to drum up domestic support, but evidence suggests that it will not work. For one thing, he is actually much less...

Daniel Treisman

Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day.

Ideology Aug 8, 2013 Snapshot

The Wrong Way to Punish Putin

Given Putin's political vulnerability, a showdown with the West over gay rights or Edward Snowden -- inevitable in light of Washington's cancellation of a U.S.-Russian...

Daniel Treisman

Obama Putin Russia Snowden Gay Rights Summit Moscow

Political Economy September/October 2012 Essay

The Other Russia

Moscow’s anti-Putin protesters have captured the world’s attention. But does their message resonate outside the big cities? New research shows that although Russians...

Mikhail Dmitriev and Daniel Treisman

Opposition activists pose with a portrait of Russia's President Vladimir Putin, with a black ribbon commonly used for the deceased tied around it, on Putin's birthday in Moscow, October 7, 2012.

Political Development January/February 2011 Essay

Why Moscow Says No

Too often over the last decades, policymakers in Washington have viewed Moscow's resistance to U.S. policies through the lens of psychology. In fact, Russia's foreign...

Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman

Russia Fsu - Foreign Affairs

Economic Development March/April 2004 Essay

A Normal Country

Conventional wisdom in the West says that post-Cold War Russia has been a disastrous failure. The facts say otherwise. Aspects of Russia's performance over the last...

Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman

Russia Fsu - Foreign Affairs

Political Development November/December 2002 Essay

Russia Renewed?

Most observers think Vladimir Putin is remaking Russia. In fact, although the faces may have changed, Putin's Russia is more like Yeltsin's than is generally...

Daniel Treisman

Political Development November/December 2000 Review Essay

Blaming Russia First

Three books ask what went wrong in Russia but find the wrong scapegoats: the oligarchs and neoliberal reformers. In fact, Russia's woes have much deeper roots.

Daniel Treisman

Political Development September/October 1996 Essay

Why Yeltsin Won: A Russian Tammany Hall

Reporters and pundits have spun many theories as to why Yeltsin won. None of them matches the polling data. Clever campaigning, anticommunist scare tactics, even...

Daniel Treisman

Russia Fsu - Foreign Affairs

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