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| Can Turkey Combine EU Accession and Regional Leadership? |
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Katinka Barysch questions if Turkey is capable of simultaneously promoting its leadership in the Middle East, Caucasus, and Central Asia while pursuing accession to the EU. (Centre for European Reform...
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| Turkey and Armenia: Soccer Diplomacy Shifting Rules are Creating a Zero-Sum Game |
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Soccer diplomacy in the Caucasus has potential for easing the tense relationship between Armenia and Turkey. However, both countries have conflicting interests in Azerbaijan that have brought rapproch...
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| Karabakh: Is War Inevitable? |
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Armenia and Azerbaijan's dispute over Nagorno Karabakh could erupt in war at any time, warns Wayne Merry. (Open Democracy, 05/22/2009)
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| Moscow Indicates It Won't Be Ignored in the 'Near Abroad' |
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In an interview with the Council on Foreign Relations, S. Frederick Starr of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University discusses the causes and consequences of Kyrgyz President K...
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| The Caucasus: Hanging Together |
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Article looks at how the countries of the Caucasus are using their natural endowments as a strategic bargaining tool and yet how long of a way they have to go to fully form a unified coordinated polic...
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| RUSSIA EYES STRONGER CLOUT IN CASPIAN REGION |
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Russia has pursued a series of separate deals between the Caspian nations. Kazakhstan appears to be most receptive to Russia’s offer of closer economic and strategic cooperation.
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| THE FORMER SOVIET UNION’S NEXT WAVE OF DEMOCRATIZATION |
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After "people-power" revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, the real tests for democratization in the region are yet to come. More complex challenges and potentially volatile transitions are ...
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| DEMOCRACY IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION: 1991-2004 |
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The article about the history of democracy’s introduction in 15 F.S.U. countries, the mixed overall outcome, importance of civil socity and the U.S. role. Few success stories... while the rest of th...
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| Case Study in Ethnic Strife: Without Rules or Pity |
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Like Bosnia, Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-majority enclave deep in Azerbaijan, has seen civil war, ethnic cleansing, and a million people made refugees. Karabakhis are discovering that nationalism ca...
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| Righting a UN Wrong |
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One failure the UN would do well to reflect on is its virtual abandonment of the peoples of Azerbaijan and Armenia and its failure to play a constructive role in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflic...
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