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Russian Strategy in Greater Eurasia: Between the EU and China

(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) For over two centuries, experts, politicians, and famous writers such as Nikolai Gogol and Fyodor Dostoevsky have observed the Europe-Russia-China triangle and confronted the infamous Russian policy…

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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’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-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…

‘Parallels’ and ‘Verticals’ of Putin’s Foreign Policy

Analysts of Russian policy often highlight the apparent lack of congruity between Putin’s domestic and foreign policy motivations. Russian domestic political development is seen as increasingly authoritarian as Putin and his allies…

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