Interview with Andrey Makarychev: Russia and the Post-1991 International Order
Eric Pardo Sauvageot (EPS): Most observers are appalled at the course of events in Ukraine at the time of this interview: how far do you think Russia is ready to…
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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…
Ukraine and the “Big Movements” That Changed Europe
Among the most notorious aspects of the current debate on Ukraine are the multiple parallels between the ongoing developments within the country and the series of “big movements” that have…
The Sochi Olympics: An Unemotional Afterword
The Sochi Olympics, as well as verbal battles over them, are over, yet their legacy will be closely scrutinized from different policy perspectives. What seems to be of utmost importance…
The EU in Eastern Europe: Has Normative Power Become Geopolitical?
(By Andrey Makarychev and Andrey Devyatkov) The November 2013 Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit in Vilnius played a key role in the transformation of the concept of the EU as a…
Orttung, Makarychev: Russian (and Chinese) Mega-Projects Bolster Triumphalist Narratives
(Al Jazeera) Much of the international discussion of Sochi the Olympics has focused on the seeming irrationality of the enterprise, as manifested by the choice of location, the cost of…
The Release of Mikhail Khodorvovsky: Insights from Three German Experts
Here are three comments on the key political surprise of this fall: the release from jail of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his move to Germany. Efforts behind the scenes have continued…
Eastern Promises: Who Pays?
The "Eastern Promises" seminar at the Lithuanian Embassy in Brussels a few days ago started like a detective story: the Ukrainian security services detained at the airport Vasil Filipchuk, senior…
Eastern Partnership Debate: Not Only About EU’s Neighbors
Ambassadors' Debate Day in Tallinn brought together heads of diplomatic missions from four Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries—Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan—and also from Poland, a co-founder of the event. Tellingly,…
Omissions in Russia’s Afghanistan Policy
The NATO-centrism in Russian foreign policy can perhaps best be seen through the lens of Afghanistan. Russia has no clear strategy toward this country once NATO troops withdraw. Its only…