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…
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PONARS Eurasia Policy Perspectives
It is with pleasure that we announce the online publication of two new volumes in the PONARS Eurasia Policy Perspectives series: Dividing Lines in Russian Politics and Foreign Policy…
Eurasian Security: The Search for Common Ground
Foreword by Cory Welt The George Washington University This collection of essays is based on the proceedings of a March 2011 workshop of the Program on New Approaches to Research…
The Kremlin’s Message to Europe: It Could Have Been Worse
On March 19, the CDU/CSU fraction of the German Bundestag hosted a day-long discussion, “Russia After the Elections: Modernization or Stagnation?”. It became clear to me that Russia, in spite…
Poland: EU Presidency as an Incentive to Reconsider Polish Identity?
(Article) In August 2011, Alexander Rahr, one of Germany’s key experts in post-Soviet affairs, claimed that Poland as the then EU presiding country had to get more involved in…
The Taming of the Shrew
EU-Ukraine Summit 2011 The fifteenth EU-Ukraine summit in Kyiv was expected to produce a major breakthrough in their bilateral relationship – the initialling of the Association Agreement (AA) containing…
“The Great Game over Turkmen gas is thus only beginning”
Drawing on Russian and Western sources as well as fieldwork, PONARS Eurasia member Sebastien Peyrouse in his new book, Turkmenistan: Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development (M.E. Sharpe, 2012), examines…
Makarychev on Russia’s Foreign Policy
"Russia tends to apply soft power quite selectively and pragmatically. In some cases, Russia’s sporadic usage of pro-democracy rhetoric is aimed at pressuring the leaders of adjacent countries and…
Why Yanukovych Did It: Explaining the Rationality of His Choice
Yulia Tymoshenko’s conviction last week for seven years in jail produced another round of speculations about the possible ways that President Yanukovych could set her free. One option that…
Tymoshenko Verdict
“Pandora’s box has been opened.” Interviews (in Ukrainian and Russian)gazeta.ua, obozrevatel.com (video clip) – Olexiy Haran, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine, PONARS Eurasia Member This sentence will further complicate the…