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Table of Contents of Spring 2010 Issue

  RESEARCH PAPERS

Authoritarianism and Foreign Policy: The Twin Pillars of Resurgent Russia
by Luke Chambers'

The Georgia Crisis: A New Cold War on the Horizon?
by Houman A. Sadri & Nathan L. Burns

Enforceability of a Common Energy Supply Security Policy in the EU: Intergovernmentalist Assesement
by Eda Kusku

“Assembling” a Civic Nation in Kazakhstan: The Nation-Building Role of the Assembly of the Peoples of Kazakhstan
by Nathan Paul Jones

Climbing the Mountain of Languages: Language Learning in Georgia
by Hans Gutbrod and Malte Viefhues, CRRC


 
 
COMMENTARY

New Geopolitics of the South Caucasus
by Fareed Shafee
 

INTERVIEW



“Dramatic changes in the political order are typically not the province of democracies”
Interview with Dr. Julie A. George, City University of New York

Russian Energy Politics and the EU: How to Change the Paradigm
by Vladimer Papava & Michael Tokmazishvili

 

The article discuses Russia’s aggressive energy policy towards the EU and the former Soviet republics, with its main goal of reinforcing the country’s monopoly over the transportation of oil and, especially, gas to the West. The language of “alternative pipelines” is used by Russia in the context of the “Pipeline Cold War” paradigm which creates significant problems for the energy safety of the EU by increasing the energy dependency of European countries upon Russiaread more

 

BOOK REVIEW

“Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. A Legal Appraisal” by Tim Potier
Review by Lala Jumayeva

           
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