Policy Memos | Аналитика 66

On the Road to 2015: Can Genocide Commemoration Lead to Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation?

September 2, 2014

The one-hundredth anniversary of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire will be commemorated in April 2015. Armenians and Turks plan to call special attention to this tragic centenary. The…

Natural Gas and the Ukraine Crisis: From Realpolitik to Network Diplomacy

The current crisis in Ukraine has again foisted natural gas diplomacy to the fore of great power politics. Many view the gas weapon as Moscow’s continuing trump card for coercing…

Upgrading Russia’s Quasi-Strategic Pseudo-Partnership with China

The fast-evolving Ukraine crisis has involved such high stakes and demanded so much attention from Russia’s leadership that it has become the decisive force shaping the country’s future. It has…

The Poroshenko Phenomenon: Elections and Challenges Ahead

(By Olexiy Haran and Petro Burkovsky) Back in 2005, it seemed that Petro Poroshenko, then serving as secretary for the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, would be entirely…

Look Beyond the Capital: The Geography of Political Openings in Eurasia

In the last decade and a half, the ousters of numerous national leaders and mass street protests in Eurasian and Middle Eastern capitals have taken scholars and policymakers by surprise. Political…

Unable to Lead, Reluctant to Follow: Russian, Chinese, and Indian Approaches to Balancing and Bandwagoning with the West

Despite increased uncertainty about the economic prospects of Russia, India, and China (RIC), these countries continue to attract significant attention as potential sources of concerted counterbalancing postures vis-à-vis the developed…

Daring to Protest: When, Why, and How Russia’s Citizens Engage in Street Protest

The December 2011-March 2012 protests in Russia, unprecedented in scale, surprised even the most astute observers of Russian politics. Were these protests a mere blip on the “normally placid surface…

The “Power of Siberia”: No Longer a Pipe Dream

After two decades of discussion, China and Russia finally agreed this year to share the $77 billion cost of building the “Power of Siberia” gas pipeline from Russia to China.…

The Implications of Russia’s Law against the “Rehabilitation of Nazism”

Amid the political turmoil following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the unrest in eastern Ukraine, the Russian parliament revived a bill criminalizing the “rehabilitation of Nazism” that President Vladimir Putin…

The Long-Term Prospects for Ukraine’s Accession to the European Union: A Focus on EU-Level Constraints

When Ukraine’s newly elected president Petro Poroshenko was inaugurated on June 7, he announced his intention to sign an Association Agreement (AA) with the European Union and to pursue EU…

Belarus’ Renewed Subordination to Russia: Unconditional Surrender or Hard Bargain?

July 20 was the twentieth anniversary of Alexander Lukashenko’s inauguration as president of Belarus. Over these two decades, his country has performed a unique balancing act. On the one hand,…

Anger and Prejudice after the Beslan School Hostage Taking

On September 1, 2004, Russia experienced its most appalling act of terrorism in recent history: the taking of approximately 1,200 hostages at School No. 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia, where…

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