Eurasia

 So What About the Other 364 Days a Year?by Arzu Geybullayeva and Melinda Haring, Foreign Policy, October 8, 2013...

A First for Georgia by Melinda Haring (with Laura Linderman), Atlantic Council, October 13, 2013...

Ukraine Roars Back to Life  (with Laura Linderman), Atlantic Council, December 3, 2013 Click here to be redirected to the Atlantic Council web-site in order to view the publication. ...

On April 17, Vladimir Putin introduced a dangerously expansive new concept into the Ukraine crisis. During his four-hour question and answer session on Russian TV that day he pointedly mentioned “Novorossiya” – a large swath of territory conquered by...

Abstract The opposition Georgian Dream coalition’s upset victory in Georgia’s October 2012 parliamentary elections displaced the then-ruling United National Movement as well as the “competitive authoritarian” model it had instituted. While the future of Georgian democracy remains an open...

Abstract The global financial crisis and its prolonged European aftermath have created a major stress test for democracy in the ten new post-communist members of the European Union. Although a majority of these transitional states have so far withstood...

In the four years since war broke out in August 2008 between Georgia and its erstwhile suzerain Russia, more questions than answers remain. To date, most literature concerning the conflict has focused on assigning blame—a dismal, irresolvable exercise that...

The global financial crisis and its European aftermath have created, in effect, a major stress test for democracy in the ten post-communist countries of the European Union. The good news is that a majority of the “EU-10” nations have...

In January 2011, when the Arab protest movements were just beginning in Tunisia and Egypt, few experts predicted the speed and extent of their spread. Fewer still suggested that there were significant analogies to the wave of post-communist revolutions...

A U.S. initiative treating Russia as a serious East Asian partner, engaging in a real dialogue on security threats there, and a strong public expression of U.S. willingness to invest in the Russian Far East (RFE) in return for...