As the first decade of the 21st century winds down, a new urgency attends the nature and quality European-American relations, triggered in part by a resurgent Russia, but also by global concerns over climate change, energy supplies, terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and the dislocations of rapidly globalizing economic and financial systems. Some [...]
Reaction to the Georgian crisis has raised the specter of a return to the Cold War. Some argue that Georgia’s impulsive young president, Mikheil Saakashvili, clearly made a serious miscalculation about Western support for him and his regime. Others believe Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was merely waiting for a pretext to demonstrate Russia’s new [...]
Reaction to the Georgian crisis has raised the specter of a return to the Cold War. Some argue that Georgia’s impulsive young president, Mikheil Saakashvili, clearly made a serious miscalculation about Western support for him and his regime. Others believe Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was merely waiting for a pretext to demonstrate Russia’s new [...]
Ukraine means borderland in all Slavic languages; historically it has been the frontier between Eastern and Western Slavs, Orthodoxy and Catholicism in Eastern Europe. Multiple forms of state organization have defined Ukrainian identity in contradictory, self-negating and contested ways. The principality of Kievan Rus was the first major political and urban setting in Russian history, [...]
