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Moldova: The Example of Gagauz-Yeri As An ‘Unfrozen Conflict’ Region
Moldova: The Example of Gagauz-Yeri As An ‘Unfrozen Conflict’ RegionBy Melinda Haring and Emmet Tuohy, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, April 5, 2007...
Read more »The Right to Change One’s Religion: Apostasy as the Litmus Test for Religious Freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan’s Constitutions
The Right to Change One’s Religion: Apostasy as the Litmus Test for Religious Freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan’s Constitutions, Boston College’s Politics of Human Rights Conference, 2010 ...
Read more »Who Cares How Many Women Are in Parliament?
Who Cares How Many Women Are in Parliament? By Melinda Haring and Joshua Foust, Foreign Policy, June 25, 2012 ...
Read more »Why the Color Revolutions Failed
Why the Color Revolutions Failed by Melinda Haring and Michael Cecire, Foreign Policy, March 18, 2013...
Read more »So What About the Other 364 Days a Year?
So What About the Other 364 Days a Year? by Arzu Geybullayeva and Melinda Haring, Foreign Policy, October 8, 2013...
Read more »A First for Georgia
A First for Georgia by Melinda Haring (with Laura Linderman), Atlantic Council, October 13, 2013...
Read more »Ukraine Roars Back to Life
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. ...
Read more »Putin’s “Greater Novorossiya” – The Dismemberment of Ukraine
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...
Read more »Georgia’s 2012 Elections and Lessons for Democracy Promotion
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...
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 ten new post-communist members of the European Union. Although a majority of these transitional states have so far withstood...
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