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Ukraine Roars Back to Life
Ukraine Roars Back to Life (with Laura Linderman), Atlantic Council, December 3, 2013Click 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...
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 than answers remain. To date, most literature concerning the conflict has focused on assigning blame—a dismal, irresolvable exercise that...
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 ten post-communist countries of the European Union. The good news is that a majority of the “EU-10” nations have...
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 and extent of their spread. Fewer still suggested that there were significant analogies to the wave of post-communist revolutions...
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, and a strong public expression of U.S. willingness to invest in the Russian Far East (RFE) in return for...
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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 change, the protest movement is unlikely to be stopped. Putin, however, is unlikely to agree to reforms that would...
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 predicted the speed and extent of their spread. Still fewer analysts made analogies to the post-communist revolutions of 1989-91....
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