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Five Things You Need to Know About Georgian Parliamentary Elections

September 27, 2012

(CAP) Voters in the Caucasus country of Georgia—a U.S. strategic partner and poster child of post-Soviet reform—will go to the polls Monday to elect a new parliament. The election has…

Can Georgia Get Back on the NATO Track?

July 23, 2012

Georgia, the most fervent pursuer of membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization among remaining candidates, seeks to receive a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) at the April 2008 summit…

Uzbekistan: The Risks and Responsibilities of Democracy Promotion

July 23, 2012

A disturbing question about the massacre that occurred in Uzbekistan three days after President Bush praised “people power” in Tbilisi is whether the demonstration effect of the movements that unseated…

Realism, Russia, and Conflict Resolution

July 23, 2012

In 2004, distinct shifts in Georgian and Moldovan conflict resolution efforts sharply underlined the functions of Russian support to the breakaway regions of South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transdniestria. Russian patronage…

U.S. Trade Policy Toward Russia Needs to be Revisited

May 1, 2012

(CAP) The U.S. Congress in the coming months will consider whether to grant “permanent normal trade relations” with Russia as part of Russia’s pending accession to the World Trade Organization.…

Russia and Georgia–An Interrupted Dialogue

April 17, 2012

(Valdai Discussion Club) Given the obvious challenges to normalizing Russian-Georgian relations, the year 2012 started off on a cautiously optimistic note. Last November, Russia and Georgia successfully concluded bilateral negotiations…

Can the U.S.-Russia ‘Reset’ Survive Russia’s Presidential Election?

March 1, 2012

(CAP) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is poised to win the Russian presidential election this Sunday despite the rise of an unprecedented protest movement against him. The prospect of Putin’s…

Abkhazia and South Ossetia: “Asymmetric Sovereignty”?

August 27, 2010

On August 25, the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies held a seminar on the implications of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, in which some innovative discussion was devoted…

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