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Nina L. Khrushcheva

Nina L. Khrushcheva

Writing for PS since 1997
173 commentaries
4 videos & podcasts

Nina L. Khrushcheva, Professor of International Affairs at The New School, is the co-author (with Jeffrey Tayler), most recently, of In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones (St. Martin's Press, 2019).

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  1. Putin’s Killer Patriotism
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    Putin’s Killer Patriotism

    Nov 27, 2023 Nina L. Khrushcheva highlights the Kremlin’s growing dependence on violent criminals to fight its war in Ukraine.

  2. Russian Life Imitates Dystopian Art
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    Russian Life Imitates Dystopian Art

    Oct 25, 2023 Nina L. Khrushcheva sees in the country’s return to absolutism why George Orwell focused on language as a political weapon.

  3. Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit
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    Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

    Sep 29, 2023 Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks that Russia's recent meeting with North Korea was intended primarily as a warning to the South.

  4. Putin’s History Lessons
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    Putin’s History Lessons

    Aug 23, 2023 Nina L. Khrushcheva sees parallels between the Kremlin’s revanchist agenda and Soviet attempts to rewrite the past.

  5. Russia’s Fractured State
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    Russia’s Fractured State

    Jul 19, 2023 Nina L. Khrushcheva argues that the aftermath of Yevgeny Prigozhin 's aborted rebellion is exposing deep cracks in the regime.

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    China’s Short-Sighted AI Regulation

    Angela Huyue Zhang assesses a recent court ruling allowing copyright protection for content generated by artificial intelligence.
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    AI’s Copyright Problem Is Fixable

    Mike Loukides & Tim O'Reilly show how to trace the provenance of generative models’ output and compensate human authors accordingly.
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    Better Jobs Mean Better Development

    Dani Rodrik shows why rich and poor countries alike will have to enhance employment and productivity in service sectors.
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    Russian Revanchism Must Be Defeated in Ukraine

    Yuriy Gorodnichenko & Ilona Sologoub say that political infighting in the West is empowering the Kremlin and its allies.
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    The World Needs a Humble Approach to Central Banking

    Jacob Frenkel, et al.

    As advanced-economy central bankers assess their recent policy responses, failures, and lessons learned, they should recognize where others got it right and where they got it wrong. Humility requires nothing less.

    explain why monetary policymakers must accept a deliberately narrow mandate.
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    Whac-A-Populist

    Though Polish voters in October ousted their right-wing populist government, recent elections in Slovakia and the Netherlands show that populism remains as malign and potent a political force as ever in Europe. But these outcomes also hold important lessons for the United States, where the specter of Donald Trump’s return to the White House haunts the runup to the 2024 presidential election.

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    The Global Economy’s Unsolved Problems

    José Antonio Ocampo offers a sobering assessment of multilateral efforts to tackle debt, development, climate change, and more.
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    Digital Payments Hold the Key to Climate Resilience

    Benjamin E. Diokno urges policymakers and the private sector to embrace the transformative potential of emerging technologies.
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    Pulling the Amazon Back from the Brink

    Carlos Nobre & Marielos Peña-Claros urge policymakers at COP28 to prevent the world’s largest rainforest from crossing perilous tipping points.

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