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The Drama of Ukraine’s 2010 Presidential Election: Opportunities Lost-Does a Potential for Stabilization Remain?

The Orange Revolution remains an event of crucial importance to the entire post-Soviet space. Its main accomplishments were the establishment of political freedom (including freedom of the press) and free…

Eighteen Months Under Yanukovych: Ukraine’s Reform Record and Implications

Under President Victor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s government has launched a variety of initiatives in different policy areas aimed at improving governance and modernizing the country’s regulatory system. One motivation for these…

The Fallout from Ukraine’s 2010 Presidential Election: Internal Change and the Implications for Ukraine’s Ties with Russia

The dénouement of Ukraine’s presidential election in January-February 2010 was as raucous as the campaign. Appearing at a victory rally on election night, Viktor Yanukovych spoke to his supporters only…

Ukraine after the 2010 Presidential Election: Implications for Democracy and Foreign Policy

In the wake of Ukraine’s February 2010 presidential election, there are three major questions that need to be addressed before a comprehensive picture of Ukraine’s “post-Orange” future can be developed: …

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…

Political Turmoil in the Northwestern Black Sea Rim: Ukraine, Moldova and Transnistria

We are witnessing the third wave of constitutional readjustment after the collapse of communism in post-Soviet Eurasia. Following the establishment of founding constitutional regimes in the early 1990s, the second…

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…

Convergence in Post-Soviet Political Systems?: A Comparative Analysis of Russian, Kazakh, and Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections

Next year will mark twenty years since the first more or less free and fair elections were held in the USSR in March 1989. Since then, numerous elections have been…

Alternative Approaches to Black Sea Regional Security: A Ukrainian Perspective

In August 2008, the Russian Federation demonstrated the will to exercise the concept of a “multipolar world” through military action. Most regional powers are unlikely to accept this concept, which…

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