83: ANALYSIS: Aleksandar Matovski on Popular Dictatorships - electoral authoritarianism, Putin’s popularity, the utility of crisis, & domestic legitimation as a driver of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

83: ANALYSIS: Aleksandar Matovski on Popular Dictatorships - electoral authoritarianism, Putin’s popularity, the utility of crisis, & domestic legitimation as a driver of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Aleksandar Matovski, Assistant Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, breaks down the internal function of 'Popular Dictatorships' - electoral autocracies - regimes in which authoritarian leaders need to maintain popular legitimacy to survive - and what this tells us about Putin, Russia and the war in Ukraine. Aleksandar outlines how Putin rose to power, how foreign crises intersect with Putin's popularity, and why we need to undertstand Russia's regime type in order to understand Putin's decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

“The domestic legitimation motive is actually much more consistent than the dominant geopolitical explanation for the war in Ukraine”

Aleksandar Matovski - Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion, and the rise of Electoral Authoritarianism

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61. KYIV UPDATE: Oleksandr Kraiev on the Russian invasion, life in Kyiv, and expected developments in coming months

61. KYIV UPDATE: Oleksandr Kraiev on the Russian invasion, life in Kyiv, and expected developments in coming months

Oleksandr Kraiev, Director of the North America Program at the Ukrainian Prism Foreign Policy Council in Kyiv, discusses the full-cale Russian invasion, life in Kyiv, and developments in coming months...

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60. DEEP DIVE: Matthew Ford and Andrew Hoskins on Radical War - data, digitization, smartphones and war - the new war ecology of the 21st Century

60. DEEP DIVE: Matthew Ford and Andrew Hoskins on Radical War - data, digitization, smartphones and war - the new war ecology of the 21st Century

Matthew Ford, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, and Andrew Hoskins, Professor of Global Security at the University of Glasgow discuss Radical War - the way in whi...

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59. KYIV UPDATE: Maksym Yali on EU leaders visting Kyiv and mounting costs on Russian forces

59. KYIV UPDATE: Maksym Yali on EU leaders visting Kyiv and mounting costs on Russian forces

Maksym Yali, Head of the Center for New World Order and Professor of International Relations at the National Aviation University in Kyiv, provides a response from Kyiv to EU leaders visits to Kyiv and...

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58. DEEP DIVE: Mark Galeotti on The Weaponisation of Everything - new ways of warfare, responses, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and... the Gerasimov Doctrine (spoiler alert: Mark coined the term!)

58. DEEP DIVE: Mark Galeotti on The Weaponisation of Everything - new ways of warfare, responses, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and... the Gerasimov Doctrine (spoiler alert: Mark coined the term!)

Mark Galeotti, director of Mayak Intelligence, honorary Professor at University College London, and senior associate fellow with the Royal United Services Institute, discusses new ways of warfare, res...

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57: ANALYSIS: British Maj. Gen. Chip Chapman (ret.) analyses the Ukraine conflict - strategy, misperceptions, possible outcomes & leadership lessons

57: ANALYSIS: British Maj. Gen. Chip Chapman (ret.) analyses the Ukraine conflict - strategy, misperceptions, possible outcomes & leadership lessons

British Maj, Gen. Chip Chapman (ret.), who fought in the Falklands War, worked as the Head of Counterterrorism for the British Ministry of Defence served as the Senior British Military Advisor to the ...

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56.ANALYSIS: US Army Maj. John Spencer (ret.) on the Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender - how a twitter thread turned into an authoritative manual on urban warfare distributed to Ukrainian forces

56.ANALYSIS: US Army Maj. John Spencer (ret.) on the Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender - how a twitter thread turned into an authoritative manual on urban warfare distributed to Ukrainian forces

US Army Maj. John Spencer (ret.), expert on urban warfare, breaks down the story of how a twitter thread on urban warfighting turned into The Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender - translated into Ukrai...

17 Jun 202223min

55. DEEP DIVE: Rory Cormac on ’How to Stage a Coup’ - Covert action, disinformation and conditions for a successful coup

55. DEEP DIVE: Rory Cormac on ’How to Stage a Coup’ - Covert action, disinformation and conditions for a successful coup

Rory Cormac, Professor of International Relations at University of Nottingham, discusses his recent book 'How to Stage a Coup: And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft'. We engage in ...

17 Jun 202219min

54. ANALYSIS: Greg Carleton on Russia’s identity of perpetual war and how fractures in Russia’s national story might shape the trajectory of Ukraine conflict

54. ANALYSIS: Greg Carleton on Russia’s identity of perpetual war and how fractures in Russia’s national story might shape the trajectory of Ukraine conflict

Greg Carleton, Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at Tufts University, joins me to discuss Russia's national identity of engaging in a perpetual war, the stories that underpin this identity,...

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