Russia's security elites are silovarchs, a term combining "oligarch" and "siloviki" ("people of force.") Daniel Treisman, who coined the term, told Insider about their influence and power. Analyst ...

Editor’s Note: Daniel Treisman is a professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of “The Return: Russia’s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev.” Ten years ago, ...

In 2004, Daniel Treisman co-authored articles in Foreign Affairs and elsewhere in which he declared that Russia is a “normal country” that almost everyone was getting wrong. Russia was not a “uniquely ...

Over the years, however, a new group of powerful elites have sprung up — silovarchs. Prof. Daniel Treisman, who coined the term, told Insider about their influence and history. Russia's unprovoked ...

Editor’s Note: Daniel Treisman is a professor of political science at UCLA, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Research in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the co-author of “Spin Dictators: ...

Niccolo Machiavelli wrote centuries ago in The Prince that a political leader must “be a great pretender and dissembler” because “men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who ...

As casualties mount before the brutal onslaught of Bashar al-Assad’s forces against Syria’s pro-democracy protesters, the Russians are being unhelpful again. In Washington and Brussels, even ...

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Oligarchs have been the target of Western countries' sanctions amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Over the years, however, a new group of powerful elites have sprung up — silovarchs. Prof. Daniel ...