SHARE        Thursday, November 18, 2010
Previewing the EU-Ukraine November 2010 Summit The Union Leadership Needs to Find a Middle Road between More Effective Critique of, and Continuing Cooperation with, Kyiv's New Leadership

SHARE        Saturday, October 30, 2010
What Political System Does Ukraine Need? From Presidentialism to Parliamentarianism The establishment of either a parliament-dominated semi-presidential system, or even of a purely parliamentary republic would constitute an important step towards Ukraine 's future political development and integration into the international community of democratic states.

SHARE        Monday, October 25, 2010
Kyiv's Next Image Problem: The rise of a Galician right-radical party will cause further Ukraine fatigue in the West "Svoboda's" presence in the national legislature would undermine the development of a Ukrainian political nation, and of a transregional, pan-ethnic patriotism. Public opinion in countries like Poland, Israel and Germany would become more skeptical towards the Ukrainians as a European nation. "Svoboda's" further rise will help cementing its current under-institutionalization in the European security structure.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 8, 2010
European Confusion in Kyiv Western observers and visitors should understand that, for many Ukrainian politicians, the main political question is still not what is legitimate, but what is doable and whether they can get away with it.

SHARE        Monday, March 29, 2010
Does Yanukovich's Coalition Government Have a Popular Mandate? As a critical part of the people's deputies do not any longer fulfill their popular mandate, the 2007 parliamentary elections have lost much of their initial political meaning. When elections are inconsequential for the distribution of power in the state, that state is not any longer a democracy.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, January 18, 2010
Russia vs. Ukraine: What Will Happen After the First Blood? Tough a violent escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict remains unlikely, politicians on both sides better start thinking how to react in case it does happen

SHARE        Monday, December 7, 2009
Ukraine's German Chance The pro-Ukrainian Free Democratic Party of Germany is becoming a player in the EU's foreign affairs.

SHARE        Thursday, November 19, 2009
Understanding the Orange Revolution: Ukraine's Democratization in the Russian Mirror On November 21st, 2009, Ukrainian democrats will be celebrating the fifth anniversary of the start of demonstrations in Kyiv which led to larger political developments that came to reshape our understanding of post-Soviet politics. During the last five years, the 2004 events in Ukraine known as the Orange Revolution have become important reference points in the international study of democratic transition and consolidation.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 23, 2009
Democratic Ukraine, Autocratic Russia: Why? As long as Russia and other post-Soviet republics will keep a national mythology that pays little attention to proto-democratic beginnings in their history, they will remain trapped in their authoritarian traditions. Ukraine provides an example of how a country can break with an unusable past, and create a pluralistic polity drawing on appropriate (if, sometimes, idealized) precedents in its national history.

SHARE        Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Europe's Share in the Ukrainian Malaise: The EU commits a historical mistake denying Kyiv a membership perspective The EU's leaders should try to see the larger picture, remember the recent past of their own countries, and stop their unhistorical cognitive dissonance. They should try do understand Ukraine's current issues against the background of the West and Central European states' experience of instability before their participation in European integration. They should offer Ukraine a European perspective sooner rather than later.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 5, 2009
Averting a Post-Orange Disaster: Constitutional Reforms and Political Stability in Ukraine Hard times are awaiting Europe's youngest and largest democracy, and one can only hope that the encouraging sanity and moderation that Kiev's elites have shown before will also prevail in the current situation.

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Fascist Tendencies in Russia's Political Establishment: The Rise of the International Eurasian Movement Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent advocate of fascist and anti-Western views, has risen from a fringe ideologue to penetrate into Russian governmental offices, mass media, civil society and academia. Prominent members of Russian society are affiliated with his International Eurasian Movement. If Dugin's views become more widely accepted, a new Cold War will be the least that we should expect from Russia during the coming years.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 7, 2009
Will There Be a Second Crimean War? In a worst case scenario, an escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian quarrel around the famous Black Sea peninsula destabilizes European security

SHARE        Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Final Notes on the Discussion of "The Unpopular Prospect of World War III: The 20th Century Is Not Over Yet" It is the Russian elite's obsession with speculating about the "real" purposes of this or that US policy in Europe or Asia (democracy promotion, missile defence, humanitarian intervention etc.) what constitutes the main problem, and, arguably, could become a threat to international security, in the case of an escalation, on the Caucasus, on Crimea, or in another region.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 17, 2009
Unpopular Prospect of World War III: The 20th Century Is Not Over Yet Unless something fundamentally changes in Russian-Western relations, we will--as the Russian-Georgian war illustrated--continue to live on the brink of an armed confrontation between two nuclear super-powers.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, January 16, 2009
Pipelines, Checks, and Balances: Is the EU Becoming an Instrument of Moscow's Neo-Colonialism? It appears that in the near future, the European Union monitors will systematically observe the flow of Russian gas to Europe at the Russian-Ukrainian border. Thus, the EU seems to be helping to ease the Russian-Ukrainian confrontation. Or is it? Instead of alleviating the tension, the presence of neutral observers may open a new Pandora's Box in the Russian-Ukrainian power struggle.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, December 22, 2008
Ukraine's Window of Opportunity In order to become a more stable and effective democracy, Ukraine should transform sooner rather than later into a parliamentary republic.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 3, 2008
Who Said "Genocide" First? A Russian Fascist Preceded (or Provided?) the Definition of Tiblisi's Attack in South Ossetia The Russian extreme right, including some of its crypto-fascist sections, is becoming an ever more influential part of Moscow mainstream public discourse. Its influence can be felt in Russia's mass media, academia, civil society, arts, and politics. Against this background, the growing estrangement between Russia and the West is hardly surprising.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 26, 2008
Moscow's Miscalculated Show of Strength: Eurasia Reacts Ambiguously to the Russian Caucasus Adventure Like several times before, the Russian leadership becomes as a prisoner to its own propaganda. Outside the Kremlin's propagandistic bubble, Moscow looks increasingly isolated - a perception that, sooner or later, will also find its way into the Russian public.

SHARE        Wednesday, June 11, 2008
"Neo-Eurasianism," the Issue of Russian Fascism, and Post-Soviet Political Discourse The example of Alexander Dugin illustrates that, as a result of an idiosyncratic conception of generic fascism in post-Soviet Russia, it is sufficient to rhetorically dissociate oneself from the worst crimes of Nazi Germany and to refrain from blatantly copying Nazi symbols in order to avoid public stigmatization as a fascist." Previously published in "Global Politician," 7 June 2008.