Eurasia Program

The Realist Victory in Nagorno-Karabakh

November 13, 2020 Analysis Maximilian Hess

Georgia’s Parliamentary Elections and the Problem of Oligarchic Rule

October 30, 2020 Analysis Miro Popkhadze, Batu Kutelia

Georgia’s Doomed Deep-Sea Port Ambitions: Geopolitics of the Cancelled Anaklia Project

October 2, 2020 Black Sea Strategy Papers Maximilian Hess, Maia Otarashvili

Event Report on the Situation in Kyrgyzstan and Its Implications

October 20, 2020 Intern Corner Matt Cesare

Russian Naval Forces in the Syrian War

October 28, 2020 Special Reports Igor Delanoë

The Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute was founded in 2015 with the aim of examining the political, security, economic, and social trends shaping Europe and Eurasia. Our research agenda covers the increasingly tense competition roiling the region from several angles. It has a multi-year focus on the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, emphasizing how geography, economics, ideology, and history continue to shape politics and security in both regions. The program also publishes analyses of Russian foreign policy, including Russia’s role in Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East. The Russia Political Economy Project, along with BMB Russia, analyzes the linkages between Russia’s economy and its political system. The Eurasia Program’s thematic initiatives also include the Democracy at Risk rubric, which examines the trends of democratization and authoritarian pushback in the region. The Central Asia Initiative is our newest project dedicated to examining the geopolitics and geoeconomics of the rapidly changing region and informing the US policymakers and policy-influencers on matters that affect U.S. national interests.

Read our new edited volume: Russia’s War in Syria’s: Assessing Russian Military Capabilities and Lessons Learned