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‘Foreign Agent’ Laws in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan Show Pitfalls of Turning Local Governance Issues into Geopolitical Battles

Image credit/license Geopolitics is perilous to democracy. This is the cautionary story from the recent adoption of “foreign agent” laws in Kyrgyzstan and Georgia (called “foreign representatives” by the former…

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Is the War in Ukraine Helping or Hindering the Relationship Between the EU and its Illiberal Member States?

The far-ranging consequences of the war in Ukraine are incalculable. The conflict has had reverberations spilling well beyond the borders of the two countries, from revisions to the European energy…

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Witnessing Ukraine, Watersheds in the Balkans

Common threats unify. Unfortunately, the war on Ukraine had to happen to make clear what already should have been. As French President Emmanuel Macron explained, NATO went from being braindead…

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Belarus Protests Have Explosive Potential for EU-Russia Relations

(Carnegie Moscow Center) Belarus has been engulfed by protests ever since the contested presidential election back in August, and whatever happens, it seems things cannot ever just go back to the…

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Transnistria’s European Drive: A Means to What End?

(Geopolitics) Abstract: This paper explores the geopolitical role that a de facto state may play while operating in the context of patron-client relations and engagement without recognition framework. This is especially pronounced…

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The Advent of Biopolitics: Repercussion for the EU, Russia, and Eastern Partnership Countries

(3 DCTFAs) The COVID-19 had significantly changed the structure of world politics by shifting its core from issues of geopolitics to what in the academic literature for quite some time…

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Global and Diffuse Risks in the Eastern Partnership Countries

(EU-LISTCO) This paper explores the extent to which global and diffuse risks impact the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries of the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood and identifies tipping points at which risks can…

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Symposium on Neighborhoods and Regionalisms | Articles by Andrey Makarychev

(NPSA | University of Chicago) The introduction to this symposium opens a discussion on the transformation of the liberal international order through studies of regions located at Europe’s margins, where new…

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Ten Years of Eastern Partnership in Azerbaijan: Time to Take Serious Steps

(NYU Jordan Center) In 2009, Azerbaijan and five other former Soviet republics signed Eastern Partnership initiative with the European Union. This agreement marked the beginning of a new era of cooperation between…

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Character Assassination as Strategic Communication in EU-Russia Relations

(Springer) (Co-authored by Sergei Samoilenko) This chapter examines character assassination as a set of strategies used by conflicting parties in international affairs. Specifically, it views character assassination as strategic communication embedded in…

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‘Foreign Agent’ Laws in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan Show Pitfalls of Turning Local Governance Issues into Geopolitical Battles

Is the War in Ukraine Helping or Hindering the Relationship Between the EU and its Illiberal Member States?

Witnessing Ukraine, Watersheds in the Balkans

Belarus Protests Have Explosive Potential for EU-Russia Relations

Transnistria’s European Drive: A Means to What End?

The Advent of Biopolitics: Repercussion for the EU, Russia, and Eastern Partnership Countries

Global and Diffuse Risks in the Eastern Partnership Countries

Symposium on Neighborhoods and Regionalisms | Articles by Andrey Makarychev

Ten Years of Eastern Partnership in Azerbaijan: Time to Take Serious Steps

Character Assassination as Strategic Communication in EU-Russia Relations