“Imposed” Soft Power? Moldova, Transnistria, and the Forthcoming Vilnius Summit

Guest post by Andrey Devyatkov—The forthcoming Vilnius summit of the Eastern Partnership to take place in a couple of months is expected to be a symbolic breakthrough in the Europeanization…

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New Working Paper: Explaining Moldova’s “Twitter Revolution that Wasn’t”

Explaining Moldova’s “Twitter Revolution that Wasn’t" by Henry E. Hale George Washington University Introduction In 2009, Moldova experienced a dramatic and violent political upheaval that ousted longtime president Vladimir Voronin’s…

Moldova as a Test Case?

Guest post by Andrey Devyatkov—After the recent visit of Angela Merkel to Moldova on 22 August many experts expected that the Transdnestrian settlement is to become one of key…

Russia’s Moldova Policy: Soft Power at the Service of Realpolitik?

This memo focuses on the intricacies of Russia’s policies towards Moldova in the aftermath of the electoral victory of the Alliance for European Integration (AEI). The defeat of the Communist…

Political Turmoil in the Northwestern Black Sea Rim: Ukraine, Moldova and Transnistria

We are witnessing the third wave of constitutional readjustment after the collapse of communism in post-Soviet Eurasia. Following the establishment of founding constitutional regimes in the early 1990s, the second…

What’s In Store For Color Revolutions? Managing a New Rise of Discontent in a Time of Crisis

The angry and hopeless demonstrations in the streets of Tehran last June did not resemble the enthusiastic “happenings” on Kyiv’s maidan (main square) in November 2004. However, successive eruptions of…

Managing the Retreat: Can Russia Adapt to the Emergence of Intermediate Europe?

At the beginning of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s second term, the analytical community was full of expectations that Moscow’s policy toward its post-Soviet neighbors would become more assertive. Inside Russia,…

Merkel’s Agenda in Moldova: Federalization? Europeanization?

Guest post by Andrey Devyatkov—European interest in Moldova’s future recently received new momentum due to the forthcoming visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Chisinau. Some analysts assume that…

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…

Moldova’s New President: Chalk One Up for Parliamentary Systems

Moldova’s parliament on March 16 finally elected a president, Supreme Magistrate Council Chair and Judge Nicolae Timofti. This outcome illustrates the promise of non-presidential systems to generate compromise even…

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