Rogozin’s Travails in Moldova
Brussels might have started to get used to the sharp-tongued former Russian ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin, but Moldova is only in the early stages of doing so. After…
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Lessons for Russia’s Neighborhood Policy
In Berlin on March 8, 2012, the European Council for Foreign Relations hosted a discussion under a catchy title: "More Europe for Germany?". Participants—Wolfgang Schauble (finance minister), Jurgen Trittin…
The Russia–EU Neighborhood After Russia’s Presidential Election
With Vladimir Putin heading back to the Kremlin amid large-scale demands for political change, one key question is: Will Russian foreign policy toward the EU and its immediate neighbors…
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…
Dealing With a Post-BRIC Russia
(Report) See the European Council on Foreign Relations report: Dealing With a Post-BRIC Russia, by PONARS Eurasia member Nicu Popescu, Ben Judah, and Jana Kobzova. – Javier Solana, former EU…
Turkmenistan Turning a Leaf?
Or just another leaf in the wind? We’ve taken note of the unusually strong signals from President Berdimuhamedov in early 2011 that Ashgabat seeks closer ties with Europe. EC President Barroso…
The Frontiers of Europe
Last Tuesday (November 16) at the Brookings Institution, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Azubalis spoke about the challenges and opportunities facing Europe as Lithuania prepares to assume chairmanship…
In Focus: Is It Time to Take Seriously Joint Missile Defense?
In a July 21 op-ed in the International Herald Tribune (“All Together Now: Missile Defense”) former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn (co-chair of the Nuclear Threat Initiative), former Russian Foreign…
Framing EU Engagement with the “Eastern Neighborhood”
The German Marshall Fund recently released as part of its "On Wider Europe" series "Completing Europe," a commentary by Iris Kempe, Director of the Regional Office South Caucasus, Heinrich…