Obama Needs a Eurasia Strategy
(CSIS) Ukraine passed a major test Sunday with the election of a new President, Petro Poroshenko. While voting in the East was restricted by separatist violence, overall the turnout was still…
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What’s Wrong with Security Cooperation in Eurasia?
Because national security outlooks are determined by objective factors such as geography, resources, and historical and cultural traditions, different understandings and meanings of the term and concept of “security” exist…
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…
History as an Old-New Political Tool in Eurasia
History used to be the major ideological discipline in the USSR. Joseph Stalin’s “Short Course on the History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)” was a single-volume version of the…