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Post-Soviet Realpolitik: Russian Policy After the Color Revolutions

Russian policy toward Georgia and Ukraine after the color revolutions presents an example of a realpolitik answer to a normative policy challenge. Here we see one of the widest discursive…

Can Georgia Get Back on the NATO Track?

July 23, 2012

Georgia, the most fervent pursuer of membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization among remaining candidates, seeks to receive a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) at the April 2008 summit…

Ideological Aspects of Georgian-U.S.-Russian Relations

This memo deals with the place of ideology in post-Soviet affairs with regard to U.S.-Russian relations. More specifically, it explores possible reasons behind the particularly fierce rivalry between the United…

The Withdrawal of Russian Military Bases from Georgia: Not Solving Anything

In March 2005 negotiations over a long-stalled issue of Russian military bases in Georgia sharply accelerated. In the end of May, the foreign ministers of the two countries signed a…

Uzbekistan: The Risks and Responsibilities of Democracy Promotion

July 23, 2012

A disturbing question about the massacre that occurred in Uzbekistan three days after President Bush praised “people power” in Tbilisi is whether the demonstration effect of the movements that unseated…

Interpreting the Color Revolutions and Prospects for Post-Soviet Democratization: Breaking the Cycles

The Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Rose Revolution in Georgia, and the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan have been widely interpreted as democratic breakthroughs. This largely misses the most important point.…

A Year After the Color Revolutions: Preemptive Authoritarianism and Challenges for Democratization in the Former Soviet Union

In 1989, citizens across central Europe went to the streets to bring down communist dictatorships and assert their right to live in free societies. More than a decade later, people…

Ukraine’s Search for a Regional Foreign Policy: One Year After the Orange Revolution

The Borjomi declaration of Ukraine and Georgia in August 2005, and the first summit of the widely-announced Community for Democratic Choice (CDC) scheduled for December 1-2, 2005, have set an…

Russia’s Virtual War Against Georgia: Risks of a PR Offensive

Georgia is the only post-Soviet neighbor—and, in fact, the only country in the world—with which Russia has a protracted and carefully cultivated political conflict that periodically escalates and generates serious…

The Russian-Georgian Crisis and Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan

July 23, 2012

In the early fall of 2002, two developments concerning Georgia garnered a great deal of attention. The first was the groundbreaking ceremony for the long-awaited Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, which has…

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