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Georgia’s 2012 Elections and Lessons for Democracy Promotion
AbstractThe opposition Georgian Dream coalition’s upset victory in Georgia’s October 2012 parliamentary elections displaced the then-ruling United National Movement as ...
Read more »Can the Post-Communist Democracies Survive a Continuation of the Euro-Crisis?
Abstract The global financial crisis and its prolonged European aftermath have created a major stress test for democracy in the ...
Read more »Western Engagement and Georgia’s Uncertain Future
In the four years since war broke out in August 2008 between Georgia and its erstwhile suzerain Russia, more questions ...
Read more »Has Democracy Met the Stress Test in Post-Communist Europe?
The global financial crisis and its European aftermath have created, in effect, a major stress test for democracy in the ...
Read more »Do the Post-Communist Transitions Offer Useful Lessons for the Arab Uprisings?
In January 2011, when the Arab protest movements were just beginning in Tunisia and Egypt, few experts predicted the speed ...
Read more »The End of Russian Power in Asia?
A U.S. initiative treating Russia as a serious East Asian partner, engaging in a real dialogue on security threats there, ...
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Russia’s Looming Crisis
Introduction Russia now faces a momentous political crisis. The abuses of the Putin regime are so fundamental that, without profound ...
Read more »Do the Post-Communist Transitions Offer Lessons for the Arab World?
When the Arab uprisings were just beginning in Tunisia and Egypt in early 2011, few “experts” on the Middle East ...
Read more »The Value of the Visegrad Four
Relations between the United States and Central Europe have stabilized after a period punctuated by tensions over Iraq, fears of ...
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