The Perch
Wilson PaceCovering regional politics across Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the South Caucasus
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 86 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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The World Nomad Games
Image: Wikimedia Commons
On August 31, 2026, the small Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan took center-stage in one of the largest and most grandiose international athletic events of the decade—The World Nomad Games. If you live outside of...
Can Iran Upend Peace in the South Caucasus?
Free trade was not always a global norm, and its unprecedented emergence over the past 80 years has been enabled largely on account of the willingness of the United States to use military force globally to promote global trade stability. In...
The Perch in Print: Volume 1, Number 3
At the beginning of 2026, I began to supplement my weekly Substack essay series with print editions—all of which featured deeply-researched and analytically-rich essays in print form. While it might be easier just to publish this content on...
Water Wars in Central Asia
Along the ocean bed of what was once the Aral Sea, ships that once sat at water level have nowhere to go but down. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
The nations of the past and present may covet steel and oil, but none of these resources would be...
An American in Moscow
Photo by Nikolay Vorobyev on Unsplash
In a bombshell August 25th press release, CBS News reported that John Ratcliffe, the head of America’s Central Intelligence Agency and one of Washington’s most senior diplomats, had secretly travelled...
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Studying the Foreign Policy and Political Economy of the Former Soviet Sphere @ The University of Virginia. I write on Eastern Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Central Asia, and the South Caucasus.
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