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DESCRIPTION:What is Vladimir Putin up to? Drawing on his new study\, Brian 
 Taylor will argue that we can only understand Putin’s Russia if we under
 stand the set of ideas\, emotions\, and habits that influence how Team Put
 in views the world.\n\nEach semester the MIT Security Studies Program\, to
 gether with the MISTI MIT-Russia Program\, and the MIT Center for Internat
 ional Studies\, presents a speaker series entitled “Focus on Russia\,”
  which considers a number of current issues in Russian domestic and foreig
 n policies. The public is welcome to attend.\n\nAbout the Speaker:\n\nBria
 n Taylor is Professor and Chair of Political Science in the Maxwell School
  at Syracuse University. Taylor is the author of three books on Russian po
 litics: The Code of Putinism (Oxford University Press\, 2018)\; State Buil
 ding in Putin’s Russia: Policing and Coercion after Communism (Cambridge
  University Press\, 2011) and Politics and the Russian Army: Civil-Militar
 y Relations\, 1689-2000 (Cambridge University Press\, 2003). He received h
 is B.A. from the University of Iowa\, an M.Sc. from the London School of E
 conomics and Political Science\, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Instit
 ute of Technology.\n\nCopies of Taylor's latest book The Code of Putinism 
 will be available for purchase for purchase at the event.
GEO:42.361155;-71.084878
LOCATION:Building E40\, 496
SUMMARY:Focus on Russia: Putinism
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CATEGORIES:Conferences/Seminars/Lectures
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