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Latvia’s 2015 EU Presidency – Already Devising Pathways through Thorny Environs

The recent German-Nordic-Baltic Forum in Riga was an exercise in furnishing new ideas for the forthcoming half-year Latvian EU presidency starting in January 2015. Along with brainstorming ways to strengthen…

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Official Russian Messages in Europe Contain Questionable Parallels and Dubious Conclusions

A few days ago, I had the chance to observe the vicissitudes of Russian foreign policy communication in action. The same day the EU Association Agreement was signed with Ukraine,…

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Achieving Unity in Ukraine

April 18, 2014

(CAP) The events of the past week in Ukraine have raised the specter of expanded Russian military intervention, political upheaval, and civil war. Moscow’s reputation in much of the country…

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Cooley: Existing Concerns of Post-Soviet Republics

(ABC News – "Post-Soviet republics in tug-of-war with Russia and the west") In December 1991 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics disintegrated and 15 countries emerged from what had been…

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EU & Russia: Competing Realities and Misperceptions

Angela Merkel’s recent characterization of Vladimir Putin as being “out of touch with reality” offers a psychiatric explanation of Russia’s aggressiveness toward Ukraine. Yet the problem is a bit more…

Winning the Hearts of Eastern Partnership States

Russia and the EU have been increasingly competing for the loyalty of Eastern Partnership (EaP) states or, as Russia calls them, states of the “common neighborhood.” What is the nature…

From Moscow to Vilnius: Armenia’s New Attempt to Reconcile the Irreconcilable

February 20, 2014

Emerging from a September 2013 meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan expressed his readiness to join the Russian-led Customs Union (CU) and disassociated Armenia…

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Latvia’s 2015 EU Presidency – Already Devising Pathways through Thorny Environs

Official Russian Messages in Europe Contain Questionable Parallels and Dubious Conclusions

Achieving Unity in Ukraine

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