Playing Both Sides: How Oligarchs in Eastern Europe Maintain Power and Control
Geopolitical competition between Russia and the West has polarized politics in the vulnerable lands in between Russia and the...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Playing Both Sides: How Oligarchs in Eastern Europe Maintain Power and Control
A nation must think before it acts.
Ukraine
The Pendulum of Ukrainian Politics: One Day You’re in, the Next Day You’re Out?
The Volodymyr Zelensky surge continued on July 21 when the Ukrainian president’s newly created Servant of the People (SoP)...
Putin’s Ill-Advised Embrace of China
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the leaders of post-Soviet Russia faced herculean challenges and fundamental questions of...
Russian Neo-Imperialism in Ukraine and Greece
The modern imperialist motives of the Russian Federation are often integrated into the notion that Russia is a revisionist...
Volodymyr Zelensky: Ukraine’s Servant of the People?
In the first scene of Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky’s hit sitcom Servant of the People, three faceless oligarchs stand...
Ukraine’s Presidential Election and the Future of its Foreign Policy
As Ukrainians prepare to elect a president on March 31, the West and the East wait to see which...
Russia’s Tragic Great Power Politics
Many Western scholars studying Russia and policymakers dealing with Russia have long found it an exhausting and bewildering endeavor....
Are the Russians Coming?: Russia’s Military Buildup Near Ukraine
Long before the Kerch Strait incident in October 2018, Russia had already begun to strengthen the forces in its...
Yulia Tymoshenko: Ukraine’s Candidate of Uncertainty
As Ukraine’s March 2019 presidential election nears, the Kremlin has not masked its interest in the outcome. Indeed, in...
China’s Black Sea Ambitions
The People’s Republic of China is actively engaging Black Sea littoral states through various initiatives to open new markets...