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The Baltic-Black Sea Connection: A Region in the Making or a Political Project?

Russia’s border with its immediate European neighbors is shaped through a variety of transborder initiatives, each of which has its own regionbuilding potential. These initiatives lack a single source. Transborder…

Russia’s Energy Policy: Between Security and Transparency

An impressive variety of approaches to energy as a subject of international politics can be divided largely into two clusters, based on concepts of security and transparency. These two concepts…

Europe’s Eastern Dimension: Russia’s Reaction to Poland’s Initiative

The process of European Union enlargement dictates two important and interrelated changes in EU–Russia relations. The first is geographic, as the EU’s borders have pushed eastward to Russia. Second, there is…

Russia Between ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Europe: New Policy Articulations

A number of recent developments have sharpened the interest in Europe’s eastern margins where Russia finds itself in direct contact with NATO and the EU. The accession of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia…

East Europe Orientation Pause Opens Fortochkas* for the United States

Eastern Europe is a very volatile region with interests and identities of key actors far from stationary. Being pro-Russian or pro-European is a matter of interpretation. Is Ukraine’s Viktor…

Merkel’s Agenda in Moldova: Federalization? Europeanization?

Guest post by Andrey Devyatkov—European interest in Moldova’s future recently received new momentum due to the forthcoming visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Chisinau. Some analysts assume that…

Is Russia Disappointed with Western Theories?

Since the days of perestroika, Russia has sought knowledge about federalism based on the experiences of Europe and the United States. But, today, comparisons between Russia and the West…

Football, Democracy, and (Trans-)Politics

These days in Germany, news from European football (soccer) arenas is far more in demand than depressing reports about the Euro crisis. Even economic and financial news is sometimes…

Young Russian Professionals are Harshly Critical of their Country’s Foreign Policy

I just finished a series of interviews and focus groups with young Russian professionals about Russia’s current foreign policies. The research was commissioned by the Gorchakov and the “Nasledie…

How Does Russia Identify Itself?

There are unexpected paradoxes in today’s political debate in Russia. On one hand, mass-scale protests have made clear that there is great demand for acceptance of Western norms of…

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