NATO and Russia After the Bucharest Summit: Is a New Security Agenda Feasible?

Changes of administration in both Russia and the United States provide some ground to anticipate a “fresh start” in U.S.-Russian relations. One of the most troublesome areas on the agenda…

A Velvet Divorce

In 2005, it became clear that the recent cooling of Russian-Western relations does not represent a short-term phenomena, and might dominate the foreign policy landscape until Russian and U.S. presidential…

The Foreign Policy of Ukraine: One Year After the Orange Revolution

It has been a year since the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. This year has been enough to produce substantial material for analysis, considering the changing dynamics of the situation within…

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…

Ukraine Between a Multivector Foreign Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration: Has It Made Its Choice?

The 2006 return of Viktor Yanukovych to the post of Ukrainian prime minister has again raised questions about the direction of Ukraine’s foreign policy. Will Ukraine continue along the path…

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…

The Political and Legal Parameters of Russian Decisionmaking on Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia on February 17, 2008, was in some ways an anticlimactic event. It was widely expected, as were the immediate reactions: recognition by the United…

Rejoining Europe?: The Socializing Power of European Institutions

Recent months have witnessed a heated debate between the United States and its European allies over basic foreign policy strategies. Played out largely in discussions over the war on terror, headline stories…

Is Russia Really an Ally?

U.S.-Russian relations have been strengthened considerably over the last year. Two developments led to this improvement: Russian president Vladimir Putin’s support for the United States in the aftermath of the…

Partners In Need: U.S.-Russian Cooperation on and Approaches to Anti-terrorism

Shaken to the core by the September 11 attacks, the United States naturally took the leading role in the global fight against terrorism. By demonstrating that even unprecedented military might…

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