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Iran and Afghanistan: Cross Border Security Challenges, Conflict Management, and Iran-U.S. Relations

Political, security, and humanitarian developments at the intersection of the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia are interrelated to such an extent that one issue or country cannot be adequately addressed…

Medvedev and the Military: Reshuffling as a Preamble for Reform?

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev insists that the somewhat softer style of his foreign and security policy makes no difference in their substance. Key policy guidelines continue to support the goals…

Economic Lures and Ungoverned Territories: Overcoming Warlordism

Several states in Eurasia have been forced to deal with “ungoverned territories,” areas technically within the borders of recognized states but where the state lacks the authority or capacity to…

Russian Naval Deployments: A Return to Global Power Projection or a Temporary Blip?

In the last six months, the Russian Navy has undertaken several high profile deployments. The number and geographic scope of these deployments is unprecedented in the history of the Russian Navy after…

Has the Russian Navy Turned a Corner?: Recent Trends in Russian Shipbuilding and Naval Deployments

In recent years, Russia’s foreign policy and behavior have become increasingly self-assertive and the rhetoric of its leaders increasingly hostile. Accordingly, some in the West have viewed with trepidation recent…

The Evolution of Georgian-Russian Sterotypes

The intensely emotional rhetoric and overreactions of Russians and Georgians in their recent war has puzzled outside observers. It is not that the belligerents lack rationality. Humans see the world through cultural…

Staying the Arctic Course: An Offer for Cooperation That Russia Cannot Refuse

Two years after the sensational expedition that planted the Russian flag on the North Pole, and a year after the peak in world oil prices, international attention to Arctic geopolitics…

An End to Russian Military Bases in Georgia?: The Implications of Past Military Withdrawals

The Russian military presence in the South Caucasus continues to remain a challenge for the newly independent states of the region. Russia’s policy towards the South Caucasus has undergone significant…

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…

The Geopolitics of Resurgent Russia: How Medvedev’s Russia Sees the World

Under President Dmitri Medvedev, Russia has begun the complicated process of redefining its role in international affairs. While this process is grounded in the achievements of the pre-Medvedev era, Russia…

Russia’s New ‘State Corporations’: Locomotives of Modernization or Covert Privatizations Schemes?

At the end of 2007, just a few months before the end of his presidency, Vladimir Putin exercised Russia’s largest one-time public investment. To this end, he signed statutes creating…

Towards a Strategic Respite in the Black Sea

In this brief paper I will try to analyze whether the Black Sea may acquire a meaningful place in the international relations of Eurasia. While there are very few reasons…

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