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New Policy Memo: Russian Foreign Policy: Traditional Vectors in a New Geopolitical Situation

The Ukraine crisis is transforming the global geopolitical order. It is eliciting new controversies and clarifying existing ones. It is also intensifying efforts to accelerate integration processes in both the…

Russian Foreign Policy: Traditional Vectors in a New Geopolitical Situation

Russia and the Eastern Partnership States in a New European Security Architecture

President Dmitry Medvedev’s European security initiatives of 2008-2009, culminating in his draft European Security Treaty of November 2009, sparked considerable debate regarding the potential and desirability of a new European…

The Black Sea Region in Russia’s Current Foreign Policy Paradigm

In the two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia’s vision and policy toward the Black Sea region (BSR) has gone through at least four stages: The “initial…

Is There a Chance for Constructive Cooperation in the CIS?

Developments after the August 2008 Russia-Georgia war have signaled increasing dynamism and complexity in the post-Soviet space. On August 7-8, the short period of relative calm that existed after the…

Russia-NIS Relations Beyond the Color Revolutions: Are the Shifts Durable?

During a short period of nine months, the joyful euphoria of many observers about the Orange Revolution in Ukraine gave way to shock and mixed emotion about the Tulip Revolution…

‘Unrecognized States’ in Russia’s Domestic and Foreign Policy

Predictably, the recognition of Kosovo’s independence by the United States and most members of the European Union was followed by pronounced appeals for recognition from three of the four “unrecognized…

Russia’s New Euro-Atlanticism

Russian-U.S. relations in the post-Cold War era have had their ups and downs, but the trend has generally been toward a reduction in spheres of cooperation, already limited just to…

Russia’s Security Agenda vis-a-vis Transatlantic Developments after the War in Iraq

The sharp disagreements among Western countries over U.S. actions in Iraq are a serious test for Moscow for several reasons. First, although disagreements in the West have occurred before and indeed deepened…

Russian Foreign Policy in Post-Soviet Space: New Priorities for New Challenges?

Moscow’s active and unprecedented direct support of Viktor Yanukovych in the Ukrainian presidential elections highlights recent changes in Russian policy toward the post-Soviet states. This new approach has raised numerous questions and…

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