Publications

Iran Democracy Monitor: No. 157

July 5, 2015

Tehran doubles down in Afghanistan;

Iran's hand in Yemen's chaos;

A deepening water crisis;

For Iran, brightening economic horizons;

The tussle of the S-300

Geopolitical costs of Moscow’s war against Ukraine

July 1, 2015 Stephen Blank Ukraine Today

By July 2015 it was clear that Russia is paying a steep economic price for its war in Ukraine. Poverty, inflation, unemployment are all rising, the economy is shrinking, and foreign investment is drying up. Moscow had to cut spending on the 2018 FIFA World CUP, pensions, and infrastructure, not to mention health care, education, science and technology, and infrastructure, i.e. human and social capital.