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Legacy and Responsibility in the Post-Soviet Space

Two main discourses are currently used to analyze relations between Russia and the other post-Soviet states. The two approaches, post-colonial and post-ideological, underlie most analyses of Russian policies in Eurasia…

Georgia’s Foreign Policy Impasse: Is Consensus Crumbling?

A broad, pro-Western consensus over foreign policy goals has existed in Georgia since the late 1990s, but it is not certain whether this will be sustained in the future. The…

In Search of National Unity or International Separation: WWII Era Textbook Narratives in Post-Soviet States

Some of the most emotionally-charged discussions in the post-Soviet space have not been about economics or foreign policy but controversial historical problems. History debates juxtapose countries like Poland and Ukraine…

An Interactive Planning Approach to Shaping U.S.-Russia Relations

U.S. policy toward Russia, as toward the rest of the world, tends to be highly reactive. Analysts and policy-makers usually spend their time discussing what the Russian government might do…

The Quest for Stability in the Karabakh Conflict: Conventional Deterrence and Political Containment

The current situation around the Karabakh conflict leads to pessimism concerning the prospects for a speedy resolution based on mutual compromise. The latest meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents with…

Polarizing the Country? Yanukovych’s Authoritarian Game between Russia and the EU on the Eve of Ukraine’s 2012 Parliamentary Elections

Ukraine is too regionally and politically diverse to allow a single entity to monopolize power—this “pluralism by default” makes the Ukrainian political system more balanced than the Russian one. The…

No Enemy at the Gate: An Unusual Election Cycle in Russia

A few weeks after the September 2004 hostage crisis in Beslan, North Ossetia, the leading propaganda man of the Putin regime, Vladislav Surkov, declared: "We must all realize—the enemy is…

Turkish Foreign Policy in the AKP’s Third Term

On July 12, 2011, the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi or AKP) claimed victory for a third time in Turkish parliamentary elections since 2002. The AKP received…

The West and the Imprisonment of Yulia Tymoshenko: When is Positive Leverage Not Enough?

When is Western leverage ineffective in shaping a neighboring country’s internal policy making and enforcing democratic norms? I address this question by analyzing the failed attempts of Western governments to…

Russia’s New Model Army: The Ongoing Radical Reform of the Russian Military

Last August, the Russian army undertook its first offensive action on foreign soil since the end of the Afghanistan war in 1989. After the initial outburst of patriotic fervor faded,…

Russia’s Moldova Policy: Soft Power at the Service of Realpolitik?

This memo focuses on the intricacies of Russia’s policies towards Moldova in the aftermath of the electoral victory of the Alliance for European Integration (AEI). The defeat of the Communist…

The 2010 Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan Customs Union: A Classic Case of Prinuzhdenie k Druzhbe (Friendship Enforcement)

The Customs Union (CU) between Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia signed in November 2009 and enacted on July 1, 2010, was a breakthrough integration project in the post-Soviet space. It happened…

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