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Where Is China Headed?
Books in ReviewThomas J. Christensen, The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power (New York: W.W. Norton & ...
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By Love, Money, or Violence: The Struggle for Primacy in the Black Sea
Międzymorze is an interwar geopolitical vision conceptualized by the Polish leader Józef Piłsudski (and later adopted by Wladyslaw Sikorski). It is commonly rendered into Latin as Intermarium or "between the seas." The "seas" in Piłsudski's formulation are the endpoints...
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COLCHIS: Georgia and the geopolitics of resilience
Arguably, the most straightforward entree into the world of Georgian geopolitics is the West-Russia tension at the heart of its ...
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Has Ukraine Passed the Tipping Point Yet?
How are Ukraine’s reforms coming along? It depends who you ask. During a recent visit to Kyiv, I heard a ...
Read more »The West Wants Isolation. What Now for Eastern Europe?
“NATO is very obsolete.” So said Donald Trump. While he may have been alone in putting the sentiment so bluntly ...
Read more »Freedom House Nations in Transit 2016 Country Report: Georgia
Democratic institutions and practices in Georgia saw signs of development, stagnation, and even regression in 2015. Positively, the year saw ...
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How, Why, and When Russia Will Deploy Little Green Men – and Why the US Cannot
The focus of applied methods of conflict has altered in the direction of the broad use of political, economic, informational, ...
Read more »What Georgia Needs to Do to Join the West
Georgia and the EU Executive Summary In recent years, Georgia made major advances in its relations with the ...
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