Pavel K. Baev: All news

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Tuesday, 8 Aug 2023
PRIO at Arendalsuka 2023

​Arendalsuka is an annual Norwegian political festival that brings together politicians, journalists, policy makers, aid organisations, civil society and the private sector.

Tuesday, 27 Jun 2023
PRIO Awarded New Funding to Research Russian Approaches to Peace Processes

PRIO was awarded new funding this week by the Research Council of Norway for a 3-year project, Russian Approaches to Peace Processes.

Monday, 22 Aug 2022
PRIO Contributions to Arendalsuka 2022

​Arendalsuka concluded on Friday and PRIO Director Henrik Urdal sums up PRIO's contributions.

Friday, 19 Aug 2022
PRIO at Arendalsuka 2022

​PRIO participated at this year's Arendalsuka with three events, and with our researchers on several debate panels.

Sunday, 8 May 2022
The History of PRIO and Peace Research: New Open Access Book

​The new open accessbook Livesin Peace Research: The Oslo Stories explains how PRIO, the world'soldest independent peace research institute, was founded and how it survivedthrough crises.

Thursday, 24 Feb 2022
Ukraine: PRIO Expertise

​The most relevant PRIO researchers to comment on aspects relevant to the Russia-Ukraine War are listed here.

Monday, 8 Nov 2021
Moscow Pulled Between Afghanistan and Syria

​In an article for UIK Panorama, Research Professor Pavel Baev writes about the inherent weaknesses in Russia's capacity to pursue an ambitious foreign policy, which are getting exposed in the wake Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan.

Tuesday, 19 Oct 2021
MidEast Policy Brief: UN Humanitarian Aid Comes to Syria for Another Year

​In a MidEast Policy Brief, Research Professor Pavel Baev writes about the future of UN humanitarian aid to Syria, following the UN Security Council adoption of Resolution 2585 on 9 July 2021.

Friday, 4 Jun 2021
Russia Readying for Compromise on the UN Humanitarian Aid to Syria

​The UN Security Council is to decide on cross-border humanitarian aid to Syria by July 10.

Thursday, 20 May 2021
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Sheikh Jarrah to Gaza

​In a series of brief blog posts, researchers of the PRIO Middle East Centre offer their reflections on the unfolding Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Tuesday, 2 Mar 2021
How do Biden’s Actions in the Middle East impact Russia?

​Research Professor Pavel Baev argues that the sequence of proactive moves in the Middle East by the new US administration simultaneously gladdens and alarms the Kremlin.

Friday, 15 Jan 2021
PRIO Joins EU Network of Non-Proliferation and disarmament think tanks

PRIO has now joined the European Network of non-proliferation and disarmament think tanks, established by the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium.

Thursday, 30 Apr 2020
COVID-19 Will Challenge Russia’s Ambitions in the Middle East

​In two recent articles, Pavel K.

Monday, 9 Mar 2020
PRIO Has the Leading Experts on Protests

How does a country’s security apparatus react to a protest movement?And what happens in the aftermath of successful protests?PRIO has long been at the forefront of research on protest movements.

Thursday, 1 Sep 2016
Maria G. Jumbert New Research Director at PRIO

​​​From 1 September, Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert will take over as Research Director for the Dimensions of Security department​.

Thursday, 8 Oct 2015
Harpviken's Candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize

​​​The attention surrounding the PRIO Director's annual speculations on who might be selected for the Nobel Peace Prize are at a peak now, with the outcome being announced by the Nobel Committee tomorrow.

Wednesday, 18 Feb 2015
Partnership of Contrarians

Russia connects with Turkey seeking opportunities in the Middle East

Tuesday, 16 Sep 2014
The pause in the Ukraine war is not Putin’s victory

​​The tragic battles around Donetsk and Luhansk (collectively known as the Donbas region) have taken a pause, and as civilians try to rebuild a semblance of normal life, leaders are figuring out how to now move forward.

Tuesday, 25 Feb 2014
PRIO Researchers on the Situation in Ukraine

​​PRIO researchers Marianne Dahl and Pavel Baev have both published on the Ukraine during the current crisis.

Monday, 27 Jan 2014
PRIO Vacancy: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on Defence and Security Policy

Application Deadline: 24 February 2014

Thursday, 16 May 2013
Russia and Turkey in conflict (mis)management in the Caucasus

New PRIO Policy Brief

Monday, 13 May 2013
New Blog on Arctic Politics and Russia's Ambitions

Pavel K.

Wednesday, 13 Mar 2013
Regions & Powers group revisits the Middle East

Checking our assumptions and making new ones

Thursday, 19 Jan 2012
The Conflict & Power Research Group contemplates Syria

​We did not have a proper debate on this conflict, but simply gathered answers to a few basic questions, and the collective wisdom is summarized as following.

Monday, 16 Jan 2012
Interview with Moscow Times

​Moscow Times - the top English-language newspaper in Moscow - called me for a comment on the arrival of Michael McFaul as the new US Ambassador to Russia, and the result is here (http://www.

Tuesday, 10 Jan 2012
Interview with Voice of America

​The VoA called me for a comment on the escalation of tensions around Iran, and the result is here (http://www.

Thursday, 5 Jan 2012
New media interviews in the New Year

​Voice of America has caught me unprepared with questions about the Russian line in the conflict around Syria, and a Russian business-oriented Internet/radio journal BFM.

Thursday, 1 Dec 2011
Interview with Reuters

​Thomas Grove from the Reuters Moscow bureau called me for a comment on the rising nationalism in Russia, a subject I am not that familiar and rather uncomfaitable with, and the result is here (http://www.

Monday, 21 Nov 2011
Interviews with Voice of America, Rzeczpospolita and the New Times

​Typically, international media crowds on you because of a particular event, but this time they all wanted different things.

Wednesday, 12 Oct 2011
Interview with Reuters on Russia's trust in 'hard power'

​Only one short sentence has come out of long interview with Reuters, and it is not exactly the one where a deep thought is spelled.

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