In the News: Brian Taylor

"Current poor relations between Russia and the West are due to a fundamental mismatch in outlooks between Putin and his close associates and most Western leaders," says Brian Taylor, professor and chair of political science.

"The Code of Putinism," written by Brian Taylor, a professor in the Department of Political Science, "provides a sober-minded account of how Mr. Putin came to lead Russia and why his almost czar-like role today bodes ill for Russia’s future," according to the book review.

"The whole press conference was Trump repeatedly scoring own goals with the ball that Putin had given him," says Brian Taylor, professor of political science, adding, "Putin must’ve been extremely happy."

"Vladimir Putin sees the World Cup as another opportunity to advance his campaign to restore Russia’s rightful place in the world," says Brian Taylor, professor and chair of political science.

"The key thing that happened Sunday is that Putin formally became a lame duck in a political system dependent on one man," says Brian Taylor, professor and chair of political science.

Institutional reforms such as increasing the independence of the courts or increasing bureaucratic accountability would undermine its very foundation, says Brian Taylor, professor and chair of political science.

As ever, to understand Russia you must know the man in charge.

The Maxwell School has appointed new chairs for the departments of anthropology, economics, history, international relations (undergraduate), political science and sociology, as well as an interim chair of social science. 

"Serbia is still negotiating with the EU to join the group," says Brian Taylor, professor of political science. "But it wouldn’t be surprising if Serbia was trying to keep its options open in terms of East and West.”

Brian Taylor, professor of political science, says Russia's military incursion into Ukraine in 2014 makes these countries nervous. “All these countries are afraid. They’re sending a signal to Russia that they can provide their own security,” he says. 

"It’s premature for a whole host of reasons,” says Brian Taylor, professor of political science, on the of the idea of a European Union nuclear weapons program.

Brian Taylor, professor of political science, was interviewed on the Carnegie Corporation of New York's "Diffusion" podcast.

“More information cannot easily be provided (to) the public—the classification is required to preserve the secrecy of the sources and methods we used to learn about the hacking,” says William Banks, professor of public administration and international affairs. “It creates a dilemma that is difficult to resolve.”

Brian Taylor’s award-winning new book details how a corrupt political system has left Russian citizens hungry for something better.