Robert W Orttung
Biographic Data
| ID | 1288262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert W Orttung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert W |
| FAMILY NAME | Orttung |
| SIGNATURE | ORTTUNG R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0190-9246 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 209 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Governance agency in a contested cruise destination
This article proposes a framework that explains the evolution of destination governance by examining the power and trust implications of the ways that various stakeholders legitimize their visions of a desirable future. We apply it to the case of Juneau, Alaska, a community and a cruise destination which lacks a comprehensive tourism plan but where governance is evolving due to the long-term confrontation between disputed visions, expectations, a…
Reanimating the sacrifice zone
Communities living in areas of extraction often find ways to overcome or resist destructive legacies, but researchers lack a deep understanding of the mechanisms by which this is done. This article helps to address this gap by employing the theoretical framework of a sacrifice zone to a case study of Yellowknife, Canada and nearby mining projects. By analyzing a combination of interview and site visit data, we find that sacrificial logic diffuses…
The climate consequences of the US-Russia global realignment
Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have expressed support for better ties between the US and Russia. In some ways, the countries have different interests. Trump would like to see lower energy prices to boost the US economy, while Putin needs higher prices to support his war effort. However, both Trump and Putin have a mutual interest in growing the oil and gas sector and likely will join forces to undermine progress at future internationa…
Measuring the invisible
A disconnect exists between theoretical conceptualizations of energy justice and the practical, policy-oriented approaches needed for real-world decision making and program implementation. Greater attention to quantifying energy justice will likely increase support for high-energy-burden households by facilitating the development of evidence-based, measurable, and targeted policy interventions to better address the needs of marginalized communiti…
Localized climate change impacts on tourism businesses
Climate change models are becoming increasingly granular, making it possible to predict how specific tourist destinations will be affected according to four different greenhouse gas emission scenarios, ranging from current levels of emissions to enhanced mitigation measures. For a popular destination like France, the changing flows of domestic and international tourists will have a strong impact on local businesses. This research makes a methodol…
The ketchup effect”
A green transition powered by large-scale, renewable energy is under way in northern Sweden, featuring innovations in fossil-free mining, green steel production, and lithium-ion battery manufacturing. These new initiatives are the most ambitious in decades, envisioned by companies and politicians as a bright, green future for a region haunted by a history of population and economic decline. However, to meet the demands of growing green industries…
Taming the wildfire infosphere in Interior Alaska
Increasingly frequent wildfires are affecting residents in the wildland-urban interface in Interior Alaska. How might fire communicators convey risk and crisis information to meet growing concerns about wildfire impacts among a diverse audience of residents? This research draws on focus group data to map residents' understandings of the infosphere of Interior Alaska throughout the stages of wildfire events. Residents’ different information-seekin…
Russia in a changing climate
Climate change will shape the future of Russia, and vice versa, regardless of who rules in the Kremlin. The world's largest country is warming faster than Earth as a whole, occupies more than half the Arctic Ocean coastline, and is waging a carbon‐intensive war while increasingly isolated from the international community and its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Officially, the Russian government argues that, as a major exporter of hydr…
Urban Sustainability in the Arctic
Urban Sustainability in the Arctic advances our understanding of cities in the far north by applying elements of the international standard for urban sustainability (ISO 37120) to numerous Arctic cities. In delivering rich material about northern cities in Alaska, Canada, and Russia, the book examines how well the ISO 37120 measures sustainability and how well it applies in northern conditions. In doing so, it links the Arctic cities into a broad…
Measuring the sustainability of Russia’s Arctic cities
Dealing with the bust in Vorkuta, Russia
The Republics and Regions of the Russian Federation
Russia is divided into seven federal districts encompassing 89 units -- regions (oblasts), territories (krais), and republics. As central power has weakened, the importance of these units and their local leadership has increased commensurately.This work brings together in one volume all basic political, economic, and demographic data on every territorial unit of the Russian Federation, its local government structure, and electoral history current…
Climate change in Northern Russia through the prism of public perception
US Arctic policymaking under Trump and Obama
Though presidential personality and preferences heavily influence US Arctic policy, climate change and the perceived threat to US interests posed by rising international engagement in the north among great powers such as Russia and China are increasingly impacting US policy in the region. Recognising that these trends are likely to persist into the future, it is important to understand the US Arctic policymaking apparatus, how geopolitical and en…
Russia Today’s strategy and effectiveness on YouTube
Many countries now operate state-funded international broadcasters, communicating directly with foreign publics to promote a variety of foreign policy goals. RT (formerly known as Russia Today) is currently one of the most prominent broadcasters in a crowded field. What is RT’s strategy, the size of its audience, and the effectiveness of its broadcasts in implementing its strategy? To answer these questions, we explore a case study of RT’s YouTub…
Russia’s far North
Russia’s far North: the contested energy frontier, 1st edition." Eurasian Geography and Economics, 59(5-6), pp. 766–767
Putin's Olympics
President Vladimir Putin’s Olympic venture put the workings of contemporary Russia on vivid display. The Sochi Olympics were designed to symbolize Russia’s return to great power status, but subsequent aggression against Ukraine, large-scale corruption, and the doping scandal have become the true legacies of the games. The Kremlin’s style of governance through mega-projects has had deleterious consequences for the country’s development. Placing th…
Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities
Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain. In particular, the volume examines how energy production drives a boom-bust cycle in the Arctic economy, explores how migrants from Muslim cultures are reshaping the social fabric of northern cities, and…
Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities
Explaining Cooperation and Conflict in Marine Boundary Disputes Involving Energy Deposits
In 2010 Russia and Norway signed a treaty that ended a 40-year dispute by dividing territory in the Barents Sea. Why did this case end in a cooperative agreement rather than continue an on-going dispute? This article examines a number of possible explanations at the international, bilateral, and domestic politics levels to answer this question. Ultimately, it concludes that the 2010 Norway-Russia boundary delimitation agreement succeeded because …
Property, predation, and protection
Property, predation, and protection: piranha capitalism in Russia and Ukraine." Eurasian Geography and Economics, 56(2), pp. 220–221
War of words
How effective is Russian state television in framing the conflict in Ukraine that began with the Euromaidan protests and what is its impact on Russian Internet users? We carried out a content analysis of Dmitrii Kiselev's “News of the Week” show, which allowed us to identify the two key frames he used to explain the conflict – World War II-era fascism and anti-Americanism. Since Kiselev often reduces these frames to buzzwords, we were able to tra…
Urban sustainability in Russia's Arctic
Drawing on research presentations at a recent conference, this article presents a big picture overview of the factors determining urban sustainability in the Russian Arctic and lays out ideas for further study. It argues that there are two main drivers affecting the development of Russian Arctic cities: resource extraction and climate change. Russia's responses to these drivers work through a number of mechanisms, including evolving decision-maki…
Munich Syndrome
To address military and terrorist threats surrounding the Sochi Olympics, the Kremlin has revised its security plan twice, raising questions about state agencies' ability to coordinate their actions and about the impact on civil society
Breaking the News
Despite the rise of the Internet, state-dominated media—especially television—remain a crucial tool for regime control in authoritarian societies. Governments in China and Russia are the forefront of the state media model, but such systems dominate in countries as diverse as Azerbaijan, Iran, Rwanda, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. To achieve dominance state media seek to influence four audiences: regime coalition elites; the populace at large; Internet u…
War of words
How effective is Russian state television in framing the conflict in Ukraine that began with the Euromaidan protests and what is its impact on Russian Internet users? We carried out a content analysis of Dmitrii Kiselev's “News of the Week” show, which allowed us to identify the two key frames he used to explain the conflict – World War II-era fascism and anti-Americanism. Since Kiselev often reduces these frames to buzzwords, we were able to tra…
Breaking the News
Despite the rise of the Internet, state-dominated media—especially television—remain a crucial tool for regime control in authoritarian societies. Governments in China and Russia are the forefront of the state media model, but such systems dominate in countries as diverse as Azerbaijan, Iran, Rwanda, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. To achieve dominance state media seek to influence four audiences: regime coalition elites; the populace at large; Internet u…
The 2014 Sochi Olympic mega-project and Russia's political economy
This article examines Russia's political economy through the prism of mega-projects, using the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics as a case study. Such projects help Russia's leaders promote the country's image abroad, define development priorities for Russia's urban landscape, and gain support for the incumbent regime. Events like the Olympics help to justify Russia's overall political and economic systems and to funnel state resources to specific regio…
A Limited Toolbox
Explanations of Russia's foreign energy policy typically focus on major events, such as the gas conflicts with Ukraine, and argue that these events represent simplistic patterns of behavior, reflecting the policy-makers’ emphasis on politics, commercial gain, corruption, or ad hoc opportunism. This analysis goes beyond these explanations to argue that the Russian leadership pursues a rational set of political and economic goals in its foreign ene…
Russia Today’s strategy and effectiveness on YouTube
Many countries now operate state-funded international broadcasters, communicating directly with foreign publics to promote a variety of foreign policy goals. RT (formerly known as Russia Today) is currently one of the most prominent broadcasters in a crowded field. What is RT’s strategy, the size of its audience, and the effectiveness of its broadcasts in implementing its strategy? To answer these questions, we explore a case study of RT’s YouTub…
Business and Politics in the Russian Regions
Russian big business is converting its economic resources into political power at the regional level
Explaining Patterns of Corruption in the Russian Regions
Corruption is one of the key problems facing the Russian state as it seeks to evolve out of its socialist past. Naturally, regional patterns of corruption exist across a country as large and diverse as the Russian Federation. To explain these variations, the authors analyze 2002 data from Transparency International and the Information for Democracy Foundation that provide the first effort to measure differences in the incidence of corruption acro…
Measuring the invisible
A disconnect exists between theoretical conceptualizations of energy justice and the practical, policy-oriented approaches needed for real-world decision making and program implementation. Greater attention to quantifying energy justice will likely increase support for high-energy-burden households by facilitating the development of evidence-based, measurable, and targeted policy interventions to better address the needs of marginalized communiti…
The Russian right and the dilemmas of party organisation
THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE UNITED STATES and the ideologists of the Russian Right had a lot in common. At first glance such a comparison seems absurd. After all, men like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson created a democratic political system that supported the peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another for the first time in world history. The leaders of the Russian Right wanted to take their country back to a romanticis…
The ketchup effect”
A green transition powered by large-scale, renewable energy is under way in northern Sweden, featuring innovations in fossil-free mining, green steel production, and lithium-ion battery manufacturing. These new initiatives are the most ambitious in decades, envisioned by companies and politicians as a bright, green future for a region haunted by a history of population and economic decline. However, to meet the demands of growing green industries…
Climate change in Northern Russia through the prism of public perception
Measuring the sustainability of Russia’s Arctic cities
Munich Syndrome
To address military and terrorist threats surrounding the Sochi Olympics, the Kremlin has revised its security plan twice, raising questions about state agencies' ability to coordinate their actions and about the impact on civil society
Russia and the Formation of a Gas Cartel
The growing institutionalization of the Gas Exporting Countries' Forum gives Russia the ability to coordinate with other producers. Should it decide to do so, European consumers would be less able to seek out competing suppliers
Russia in a changing climate
Climate change will shape the future of Russia, and vice versa, regardless of who rules in the Kremlin. The world's largest country is warming faster than Earth as a whole, occupies more than half the Arctic Ocean coastline, and is waging a carbon‐intensive war while increasingly isolated from the international community and its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Officially, the Russian government argues that, as a major exporter of hydr…
Dealing with the bust in Vorkuta, Russia
From Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Explaining Cooperation and Conflict in Marine Boundary Disputes Involving Energy Deposits
In 2010 Russia and Norway signed a treaty that ended a 40-year dispute by dividing territory in the Barents Sea. Why did this case end in a cooperative agreement rather than continue an on-going dispute? This article examines a number of possible explanations at the international, bilateral, and domestic politics levels to answer this question. Ultimately, it concludes that the 2010 Norway-Russia boundary delimitation agreement succeeded because …
Russian Unions as Political Actors
The politicization of Russian labor unions peaked after the 2011-2012 elections. The realization of the unions' political ambitions could reduce the importance of social partnerships, widen the gap between official and alternative unions, and fill the left-center niche in Russian politics
The Russian right and the dilemmas of party organisation
THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE UNITED STATES and the ideologists of the Russian Right had a lot in common. At first glance such a comparison seems absurd. After all, men like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson created a democratic political system that supported the peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another for the first time in world history. The leaders of the Russian Right wanted to take their country back to a romanticis…
The Russian parliamentary elections of 1995
This work provides an introduction to some of the most important and representative genres of classical Korean literature. Coverage includes: Samguk sagi and samguk yusa as literature Kunmong and Unyongchon the lyricism of Koryo songs and the literature of Chosen Dynasty Women
From Leningrad to St. Petersburg
From Leningrad to St. Petersburg
PART 1: INTRODUCTION - Theories of Democratization - PART 2: THE ACTORS, THEIR INTERESTS, AND RESOURCES - Regime Hardliners: The Leningrad Communist Party Organization - Regime Reformers: The Democratic Platform - Opposition Radicals: The Democratic Union - Moderate Opposition: The Leningrad Popular Front - PART 3: ADOPTING THE 1990 ELECTORAL LAW - The Importance of the City Soviet and the 1990 Electoral Law - The Strategy of the Hardliners in Ad…
Business and Politics in the Russian Regions
Russian big business is converting its economic resources into political power at the regional level
Explaining Patterns of Corruption in the Russian Regions
Corruption is one of the key problems facing the Russian state as it seeks to evolve out of its socialist past. Naturally, regional patterns of corruption exist across a country as large and diverse as the Russian Federation. To explain these variations, the authors analyze 2002 data from Transparency International and the Information for Democracy Foundation that provide the first effort to measure differences in the incidence of corruption acro…
National counter-terrorism strategies
This publication discusses and compares various reactions to the challenges of mass-scale terrorism. Five countries are at the centre of the research: The United States, Great Britain, France, Turkey and Russia, each of them being a victim of multiple terrorist attacks. This volume is grounded in a conceptual presumption that the countries directly affected by terrorism produce different types of responses. Of course, there is much in common in a…
The Forensics of Election Fraud
A Limited Toolbox
Explanations of Russia's foreign energy policy typically focus on major events, such as the gas conflicts with Ukraine, and argue that these events represent simplistic patterns of behavior, reflecting the policy-makers’ emphasis on politics, commercial gain, corruption, or ad hoc opportunism. This analysis goes beyond these explanations to argue that the Russian leadership pursues a rational set of political and economic goals in its foreign ene…
Russia and the Formation of a Gas Cartel
The growing institutionalization of the Gas Exporting Countries' Forum gives Russia the ability to coordinate with other producers. Should it decide to do so, European consumers would be less able to seek out competing suppliers
Russian Unions as Political Actors
The politicization of Russian labor unions peaked after the 2011-2012 elections. The realization of the unions' political ambitions could reduce the importance of social partnerships, widen the gap between official and alternative unions, and fill the left-center niche in Russian politics
Urban sustainability in Russia's Arctic
Drawing on research presentations at a recent conference, this article presents a big picture overview of the factors determining urban sustainability in the Russian Arctic and lays out ideas for further study. It argues that there are two main drivers affecting the development of Russian Arctic cities: resource extraction and climate change. Russia's responses to these drivers work through a number of mechanisms, including evolving decision-maki…
Munich Syndrome
To address military and terrorist threats surrounding the Sochi Olympics, the Kremlin has revised its security plan twice, raising questions about state agencies' ability to coordinate their actions and about the impact on civil society
Breaking the News
Despite the rise of the Internet, state-dominated media—especially television—remain a crucial tool for regime control in authoritarian societies. Governments in China and Russia are the forefront of the state media model, but such systems dominate in countries as diverse as Azerbaijan, Iran, Rwanda, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. To achieve dominance state media seek to influence four audiences: regime coalition elites; the populace at large; Internet u…
The 2014 Sochi Olympic mega-project and Russia's political economy
This article examines Russia's political economy through the prism of mega-projects, using the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics as a case study. Such projects help Russia's leaders promote the country's image abroad, define development priorities for Russia's urban landscape, and gain support for the incumbent regime. Events like the Olympics help to justify Russia's overall political and economic systems and to funnel state resources to specific regio…
Property, predation, and protection
Property, predation, and protection: piranha capitalism in Russia and Ukraine." Eurasian Geography and Economics, 56(2), pp. 220–221
War of words
How effective is Russian state television in framing the conflict in Ukraine that began with the Euromaidan protests and what is its impact on Russian Internet users? We carried out a content analysis of Dmitrii Kiselev's “News of the Week” show, which allowed us to identify the two key frames he used to explain the conflict – World War II-era fascism and anti-Americanism. Since Kiselev often reduces these frames to buzzwords, we were able to tra…
Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities
Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain. In particular, the volume examines how energy production drives a boom-bust cycle in the Arctic economy, explores how migrants from Muslim cultures are reshaping the social fabric of northern cities, and…
Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities
Explaining Cooperation and Conflict in Marine Boundary Disputes Involving Energy Deposits
In 2010 Russia and Norway signed a treaty that ended a 40-year dispute by dividing territory in the Barents Sea. Why did this case end in a cooperative agreement rather than continue an on-going dispute? This article examines a number of possible explanations at the international, bilateral, and domestic politics levels to answer this question. Ultimately, it concludes that the 2010 Norway-Russia boundary delimitation agreement succeeded because …
Putin's Olympics
President Vladimir Putin’s Olympic venture put the workings of contemporary Russia on vivid display. The Sochi Olympics were designed to symbolize Russia’s return to great power status, but subsequent aggression against Ukraine, large-scale corruption, and the doping scandal have become the true legacies of the games. The Kremlin’s style of governance through mega-projects has had deleterious consequences for the country’s development. Placing th…
Russia’s far North
Russia’s far North: the contested energy frontier, 1st edition." Eurasian Geography and Economics, 59(5-6), pp. 766–767
The Republics and Regions of the Russian Federation
Russia is divided into seven federal districts encompassing 89 units -- regions (oblasts), territories (krais), and republics. As central power has weakened, the importance of these units and their local leadership has increased commensurately.This work brings together in one volume all basic political, economic, and demographic data on every territorial unit of the Russian Federation, its local government structure, and electoral history current…
Climate change in Northern Russia through the prism of public perception
US Arctic policymaking under Trump and Obama
Though presidential personality and preferences heavily influence US Arctic policy, climate change and the perceived threat to US interests posed by rising international engagement in the north among great powers such as Russia and China are increasingly impacting US policy in the region. Recognising that these trends are likely to persist into the future, it is important to understand the US Arctic policymaking apparatus, how geopolitical and en…
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