Kyiv and Tbilisi: No Longer Washington’s Favorites?
Since Barack Obama has come to power, the United States has not fundamentally distanced itself from Ukraine and Georgia or, as some critics would have it, abandoned them to their…
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The Color Revolutions Betrayed
The color revolutions of Georgia (2003), Ukraine (2004) and Kyrgyzstan (2005) promised these countries substantive democratization, which was supposed to end the immoral practices of post-Soviet imitation democracies, foster market-driven…
What’s In Store For Color Revolutions? Managing a New Rise of Discontent in a Time of Crisis
The angry and hopeless demonstrations in the streets of Tehran last June did not resemble the enthusiastic “happenings” on Kyiv’s maidan (main square) in November 2004. However, successive eruptions of…
External Forces, Nationalism, and the Stagnation of Democratization in Georgia
Since the so-called Rose Revolution, Georgia has been a promising testing ground for theories of international influence on democratization. The Georgian government was a collection of young “democrats,” heavily dependent…
An End to Russian Military Bases in Georgia?: The Implications of Past Military Withdrawals
The Russian military presence in the South Caucasus continues to remain a challenge for the newly independent states of the region. Russia’s policy towards the South Caucasus has undergone significant…
Energizing the Western Response to Democratic Setbacks in Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia
The most recent elections in the three states of the South Caucasus and in Kyrgyzstan have all represented strong setbacks for the development of democracy. While the specific situations are…
The Evolution of Georgian-Russian Sterotypes
The intensely emotional rhetoric and overreactions of Russians and Georgians in their recent war has puzzled outside observers. It is not that the belligerents lack rationality. Humans see the world through cultural…
Vae Victors: The Russian Army Pays for the Lessons of the Georgian War
The dust of the five-day August war between Russia and Georgia was partly settled by the end of the year – and was partly blown away by the hurricane winds…
The South Caucasus Corridor after the Russian-Georgian War
The “five-day war” between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 has many dimensions. For those trying to discern its strategic implications, perhaps the most important is its impact on alternative…
War in Georgia and the ‘Russian Card’ in Ukrainian Politics
Escalation of the South Ossetian conflict into a Russian-Georgian war immediately changed the security climate in the post-Soviet space. For the first time since 1991, the Russian Federation officially rejected…