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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…

A Year After the Color Revolutions: Preemptive Authoritarianism and Challenges for Democratization in the Former Soviet Union

In 1989, citizens across central Europe went to the streets to bring down communist dictatorships and assert their right to live in free societies. More than a decade later, people…

Ukraine’s Search for a Regional Foreign Policy: One Year After the Orange Revolution

The Borjomi declaration of Ukraine and Georgia in August 2005, and the first summit of the widely-announced Community for Democratic Choice (CDC) scheduled for December 1-2, 2005, have set an…

Managing the Retreat: Can Russia Adapt to the Emergence of Intermediate Europe?

At the beginning of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s second term, the analytical community was full of expectations that Moscow’s policy toward its post-Soviet neighbors would become more assertive. Inside Russia,…

Alternative Interpretation of the Russian-Ukrainian Gas Crisis

The month-long conflict between Russia and Ukraine over the price of Russian gas has pitted images against policy. In recent years, the image of Russia has been largely negative while…

From Presidentialism to Parliamentarianism: Strengthening or Weakening Democracy in Ukraine?

Since the late 1980s, crises in Ukrainian politics have been resolved through political compromise. Ukraine’s peaceful transition to independence, the 1994 electoral transition of power (the first in the post-Soviet…

U.S.-Ukraine Relations: The Long Road to Strategic Partnership

The dissolution of the Soviet Union fifteen years ago took many in the United States by surprise. Whether or not the U.S. government ought to have been better prepared for…

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…

Ukraine Between a Multivector Foreign Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration: Has It Made Its Choice?

The 2006 return of Viktor Yanukovych to the post of Ukrainian prime minister has again raised questions about the direction of Ukraine’s foreign policy. Will Ukraine continue along the path…

The United States and the Ukrainian Election Political Crisis

Clearly there is a need to analyze in close detail, both in content and essence, the evolution of the U.S. position toward the recent Ukrainian election political crisis. Much has…

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