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Volume 31, 2023

Issue 4

The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Test of Russia’s Subnational State Capacity - Cameron Ross, Rostislav Turovsky, and Marina Sukhova View

“Lots of Money, Few Restrictions, and a Lot of Creativity:” The Changing Role of Political Strategists in Russia - Svetlana Barsukova and Elena Denisova-Schmidt View

Opposition Cooperation in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes: Theory and Evidence from Russia - Dima Kortukov View

Beyond Drugs and Arms: Uncovering Eurasia’s Understudied World of Illicit Trade - Alexander Kupatadze View

Issue 3

Domestic and International Dimensions of Ukraine's Decentralization: Kyiv's Local Governance Reform and Post-Soviet Democratization - Valentyna Romanova and Andreas Umland View

Flexible Authoritarian Governance in Russia: The Politics of Ideas on Family Policy - Marina Khmelnitskaya, Ann-Mari Sätre, and Ulla Pape View

Russia and the Middle East: From "Honest Broker" to "Status-Keeper" - Leonid Issaev View

Do People Protest for Democracy? Investigating the Democratic Theory of Protest Participation in Armenia's Velvet Revolution of 2018 - Dinara Pisareva View

Issue 2

The Legitimacy of Power in Modern Russian Prisons: Between Harsh Discipline and Managed Self-Governance - Kseniia Runova View

When Juries Come to Russian District Courts: Lay Participation Expansion and Court System Non-Compliance - Ekaterina Khodzhaeva View

Moot Courts as a Site for Valorization of the Russian Legal Profession - Grigory Gorbun View

Four Months of "Discrediting the Military": Repressive Law in Wartime Russia - Lauren A. McCarthy, Douglas Rice, and Aleks Lokhmutov View

The Swan, the Pike, and the Crayfish: The Deep Cleavages in Russian Legal Education - Aryna Dzmitryieva and Timur Bocharov View

Contradictions of Justice in Russia: An Introduction to the Special Issue - Evgenia Olimpieva View

Issue 1

The Differential Impact of Traditional and Social Media on Public Confidence: The Case of Kazakhstan - Hoyoun Koh and Kyungmin Baek View

The KGB and Glasnost: A Contradiction in Terms? - Sanshiro Hosaka View

Informal Networks of Regional Elites in Russia: A Cross-Temporal Perspective - Kirill Melnikov View

Culturalizing the Nation: A Quantitative Approach to the Russkii/Rossiiskii Semantic Space in Russia’s Political Discourse - Marlene Laruelle, Ivan Grek, and Sergey Davydov View

 

Volume 30, 2022

Issue 4

Demokratizatsiya at 30: Introduction to the Special Issue - Ellen Powell View

Political Developments in Georgia - Svante Cornell View

Armenia: A Stealthy Thermidor? - Alexander Iskandaryan View

The Belarusian Revolution: Two Years after the Storm - Arkady Moshes and Ryhor Nizhnikau View

Digitalized Protests in Belarus and Symbolic Walls: Some Lessons Related to Youth -  View

Turkmenistan’s 2022 Leadership Change through the Personalist Paradigm - Slavomír Horák View

Revisiting Judicial Reform in Russia - Peter Solomon View

Unfinished Business: 1991 as the End of the CPSU but Not of the KGB - Sanshiro Hosaka View

The Consequences of Putin’s Centralization of Power - Robert Orttung View

Are Russians Imperialists? - Michael McFaul View

Revisiting the Problem of Organized Crime in Post-Soviet Development - Louise Shelley View

Revisiting a “Sad Saga” of Russo-Ukrainian Relations Twenty Years On - Igor Torbakov View

Issue 3

Cooperation and Control at the Micro Level of Soviet Internationalism: Moscow's Lumumba University, 1960-1970 - Nikolaus Graf Vitzthum View

Governance and Human Rights in Transnistria: Between Theory and Praxis - Lucia Leontiev View

Sixty Shades of Statism: Mapping the Ideological Divergences in Russian Elite Discourse - Ivan Fomin View

Digitalization of the Menu of Manipulation: Electoral Forensics of Russian Gubernatorial Elections - Kristin Eichhorn View

Subnational State Capacity in Russia: The Implementation of the 2012 Presidential "May Decrees" - Cameron Ross, Rostislav Turovsky, and Marina Sukhova View

Issue 2

Party-Based Euroscepticism: The Case of Georgia - Sandro Tabatadze View

Journalistic Role Performance in the Russian Press: A Post-Soviet Model for the Third Decade, 2012-2022 - Svetlana Pasti, Olga Logunova and Sergey Davydov View

On Subregional Differences in Attitudes toward Petty Corruption in the Russian Far East - Elena Denisova-Schmidt and Anna Solovyeva View

Probing, Brokering, and Resisting the State: Place-Based Activism in Moscow - Maria Davidenko and Victor Attila Albert View

Issue 1

The Publication Race in Russian Universities as an Impediment to Academic Freedom - Irina Dezhina View

University Leader Appointment Procedure in Russia: Building a Vertical of Power in Higher Education - Daria Gerashchenko View

Building a World-Class University in Russia: Redefining the Relationship between Academic and Managerial Governance - Katerina Guba View

Faculty Self-Governance, Professorial Power, and Academic Freedom in Russia - Mikhail Sokolov View

Academic Freedom or Freedom of Speech? Russian Social Scientists' Understanding of Academic Freedom - Dmitry Dubrovsky and Irina Meyer (Olimpieva) View

Speaking Up at Work: Narrative Analysis of Academic Freedom in Russia - Elizaveta Potapova View

 

Volume 29, 2021

Issue 4

Narrating Western Education as a Pathway to Change-Making: Evidence from Post-Euromaidan Ukraine - Maryna Rabinovych View

Where in the World Is Ukraine? Confronting Russian and European Representations of Ukraine - Clarisse Didelon-Loiseau and Yann Richard View

Ukrainian Youth and Ukraine in Europe: A Cohort Analysis of the Drivers of Attitudes toward the EU - Olga Onuch and Cressida Arkwright View

Friends, Supporters, and Allies? Understanding IR Roles through Metaphor Scenarios - Natalia Chaban and Viktor Velivchenko View

Ukraine through a Baltic Lens: Regional Networks of Meanings - Donald Matheson, Linda Jean Kenix, and Natalia Chaban View

Diverging Horizons? How Citizens and Young Elites Narrate Foreign Policy in Ukraine and the Baltic States - Alister Miskimmon and Ben O'Loughlin View

Introduction - Natalia Chaban, Alister Miskimmon, Ben O’Loughlin, and Pauline Sophie Heinrichs View

Negotiating Global Uncertainty, Identity, and Europeanization: An Examination of Youth Narrative Processes between Ukraine and the Three Baltic States - Iana Sabatovych and Pauline Heinrichs View

Issue 3

Perestroika and the End of the Cold War - Jack F. Matlock, Jr. View

Gorbachev's Non-Violence Revolution - Andrei Illarionov View

Perestroika as a Humanist Project - Svetlana Savranskaya View

Mikhail Gorbachev and the Origins of Perestroika: A Retrospective - Mark Kramer View

Mikhail S. Gorbachev: An Exceptional Leader - George W. Breslauer View

Mikhail Gorbachev: A Transformational Leader - Archie Brown View

Perestroika and New Thinking: A Retrospective - Mikhail S. Gorbachev View

Issue 2

Identity Politics as Pretext and Prediction: Vote-Buying and Group Boundaries in Ukraine - Simon Schlegel View

Mixed Values and Societal Constraints: The Weak Prospects for Authoritarianism in Ukraine - Yuriy Matsiyevsky View

Strategic Transgressions: Russia’s Deviant Sovereignty and the Myth of Evgenii Prigozhin - Jardar Østbø View

The Belarusian Revolution: Sources, Interim Outcomes, and Lessons to Be Learned - Arkady Moshes and Ryhor Nizhnikau View

Issue 1

Georgia’s Europeanization: Performative Games and Peculiarities of “Enforced Socialization” - Lia Tsuladze and Irine Osepashvili View

Taming the Oligarchs? Democratization and State Capture: The Case of Moldova - Ion Marandici View

Why Political Machines Fail: Evidence from Bashkortostan - Stanislav Shkel View

The Silovik-Industrial Complex: Russia’s National Guard as Coercive, Political, Economic and Cultural Force - Mark Galeotti View

 

Volume 28, 2020

Issue 4

The Political Values of the State and Private Sectors of the Russian Middle Class - Svetlana Mareeva and Cameron Ross View

The Russian State and the Arctic Indigenous Peoples: Is Politics Coming Back? - Arbakhan Magomedov View

New Generation of Victors: Narrating the Nation in Russian Presidential Discourse, 2012–2019 - Veera Laine View

Observing Elite Support for Democracy: The Prison Vote in Poland and Ukraine - Stephen Bloom and Benjamin Bricker View

Issue 3

Integration or Absorption? Analyzing the Propagandist Narratives Generated by Russia-Backed Online Regional Media in Belarus - Vasil Navumau View

Identity Discourse in Local Newspapers Before, During, and After Military Conflict: A Case Study of Kramatorsk - Jon Roozenbeek View

Local Dimensions of Media Freedom: A Comparative Analysis of News Media Landscapes in 33 Russian Regions - Anna Litvinenko and Kamilla Nigmatullina View

State Information Contracts: The Economic Leverage of Regional Media Control in Russia - Olga Dovbysh and Oscar Mukhametov View

Poverty and Morality: A Field Theory Analysis of Russia’s Struggling Provincial Journalism - Elina Erzikova and Wilson Lowrey View

Local Media of Post-Soviet Countries: Evidence from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine - Olga Dovbysh and Katja Lehtisaari View

Issue 2

Regulating Society after the Color Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of NGO Laws in Belarus, Russia, and Armenia - Leah Gilbert View

Exploring Civil Society in the North-West Caucasus: The State, Local Government, and Communities on a Convoluted Path toward Social Stability - Murat Shogenov, Alexey Gunya, and Aslan Chechenov View

The Far Right in Pre- and Post-Euromaidan Ukraine: From Ultra-Nationalist Party Politics to Ethno-Centric Uncivil Society - Andreas Umland View

Promoting the Legal Protection of Anti-Corruption Whistleblowers in Ukraine - Olena Shostko View

Explaining Variation in the Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Activism in Ukraine’s Regions: The Role of Local Context, Political Will, Institutional Factors, and Structural Factors - Oksana Huss, Max Bader, Andriy Meleshevych, and Oksana Nesterenko View

Issue 1

Law Enforcement and the Politics of Religious Minority Rights in Azerbaijan - Sophia Wilson View

Assessing the Potential for Renegades among Russian Millennial Lawyers - Kathryn Hendley View

No Revolution of Dignity for Ukraine’s Judges: Judicial Reform after the Euromaidan - Maria Popova and Daniel Beers View

Mechanisms of Decoupling from Global Regimes: The Case of Anti-Corruption Reforms in Russia and Ukraine - Marina Zaloznaya and William M. Reisinger View

Taxes, Banking, and Legal Development in Russia: Lessons about Institutional Complementarities and the Rule of Law - Jordan Gans-Morse View

The Decriminalization of Domestic Violence in Russia - Olga Semukhina View

A Law & Society Take on Legality in the Former Soviet Union: An Introduction to the Special Issue -  View

 

Volume 27, 2019

Issue 4

Islam and Local Politics in Counties of South Dagestan under Governor Ramazan Abdulatipov (2013–2017) - Kimitaka Matsuzato and Magomed-Rasul Ibragimov View

Foreign Agents and Gay Propaganda: Russian LGBT Rights Activism Under Pressure - Lucy Pakhnyuk View

“Who and Where are We?” Landscapes as Mediums of Identity Negotiation for Georgia’s Azeri-Turks - Karli-Jo T. Storm View

The Problematic Nature of Russian Banking - Anders Aslund View

Big Business in Putin’s Russia: Structural and Instrumental Power - Ilya Matveev View

Issue 3

How State-Controlled Media Can Set the Agenda on the Internet: Coverage of Three Tragedies on Different Types of Russian Media - Anastasia Kazun and Anton Kazun View

Russian Nationalism Shifting: The Role of Populism Since the Annexation of Crimea - Sofia Tipaldou and Philipp Casula View

Belarus at the United Nations: An Analysis of Belarus’s Global Policy Alignment Following the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine - Olena Lennon and Aemin Becker View

Social Media as a Source of Counter-Hegemonic Discourses: Micro-Level Analysis of the Belarusian “Silent Actions” Protest Movement - Vasil Navumau View

(Dis)Engaging Youth in Contemporary Belarus through a Pro-Presidential Youth League - Kristiina Silvan View

Issue 2

Tribute to Joyce Poole Horn, 1939-2019 - Sally W. Stoecker, Louise Shelley and Fredo Arias-King View

The Georgian Dream? Outcomes from the Summer of Protest, 2018 - Phillip Oravec and Edward Holland View

Roadblocks: Georgia’s Long Road to NATO Membership - Joe Kyle View

Russian Center-Periphery Relations from Khrushchev to Putin, 1957-2018 - Joel Moses View

Democratic Culture in Belarus: Insights on Democratic Citizenship, Trust, and Participatory Intentions among Adolescents - Natallia Sianko View

Hegemony of the European Project in Georgia: From Foreign Policy Initiative to the Logic of State Building and Development - Tamar Gamkrelidze View

Flexible Memory Narratives in the Physical Landscape: A Case Study of Tbilisi, Georgia - Karli Storm View

Issue 1

Buying Directly from Farmers: Tactics of St. Petersburg Consumers - Olga Gromasheva View

Moonlighting Politicians in Russia: Defense Capacities of Businesspeople in Regional and Local Legislatures - Maria Sakaeva View

Regions in Search of a Violent Entrepreneur - Leonid Blyakher View

Informal Practices of Big Business in the Post-Soviet Period: From Oligarchs To "Kings of State Orders" - Svetlana Barsukova View

The Informal Economy and Post-Socialism: Imbricated Perspectives on Labor, the State, and Social Embeddedness - Jeremy Morris View

Russia's Informal Economy: Rules of the Game for Business - Irina Meyer (Olimpieva) View

 

Volume 26, 2018

Issue 4

Post-Velvet Revolution Armenia's Foreign Policy Challenges - Alexander Markarov and Vahe Davtyan View

Velvet Revolution, Armenian Style - Levon Abrahamian and Gayane Shagoyan View

My Step Aside from Sasna Tsrer: The Dynamics of Protest Coalitions in Armenia, 2016 and 2018 - Nikolai Silaev and Ivan Fomin View

The Velvet Revolution in Armenia: How to Lose Power in Two Weeks - Alexander Iskandaryan View

The Armenian Anomaly: Toward an Interdisciplinary Interpretation - Georgi Derluguian and Ruben Hovhannisyan View

Good News from the Caucasus? An Introduction to the Special Issue - Editorial View

Issue 3

Perspectives: Gubernatorial Turnover in the Russian Regions, 2005-2012 - Ekaterina Paustyan View

Is Kazakhstan Immune to Color Revolutions? The Social Movements Perspective - Nurseit Niyazbekov View

Media Security Structural Indicators: The Case of Moldova - Alla Rosca View

The Kremlin’s “Active Measures” Failed in 2013: That’s When Russia Remembered Its Last Resort—Crimea - Sanshiro Hosaka View

Russian State Television Coverage of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election - Tina Burrett View

Issue 2

Guardians of the Status Quo: Stopping the Diffusion of Popular Challenges to Authoritarian Rule - Karrie J. Koesel View

Diffusion Brokers and Regime Change Waves: The US Role in the Wave of Central and Eastern European Electoral Breakthroughs - Tsveta Petrova View

The Electoral Model without Elections?: The Arab Uprisings of 2011 and the Color Revolutions in Comparative Perspective - Alanna C. Van Antwerp, Nathan J. Brown View

Mass Actions and Middlemen of Communism and the Color Revolutions - Jane Leftwich Curry View

Modes of Popular Mobilizations against Authoritarian Rulers: A Comparison of 1989, the Color Revolutions, and the MENA Uprisings - Valerie Bunce, Sharon Wolchik View

Introduction: Mass Mobilization in Comparative Perspective - Valerie Bunce, Sharon Wolchik View

Issue 1

Parameters of Police Reform and Non-Reform in Post-Soviet Regimes: The Case of Armenia - Nona Shahnazarian, Matthew Light View

Between Mob and Multitude: Youth Ambivalence Toward Mass Mobilization in a Ukrainian Protest Movement - Anna Fournier View

Coalitional Configurations: A Structural Analysis of Democratization in the Former Soviet Union - Andrew Buck, Jeffrey Hass View

Protests in Russia: The Example of the Blue Buckets Society - Al Evans View

 

Volume 25, 2017

Issue 4

Informal Governance & Electorate Perceptions in Hybrid Regimes: The 2016 Parliamentary Elections in Georgia - Bidzina Lebanidze, Kornely Kakachia View

Regime Development and Patron–Client Relations: The 2016 Transnistrian Presidential Elections and the “Russia Factor” - Pål Kolstø, Helge Blakkisrud View

Against the Stream: Political Opposition in the Russian Regions During the 2012–2016 Electoral Cycle - Andrei Semenov View

Electoral Sources of Authoritarian Resilience in Russia: Varieties of Electoral Malpractice, 2007–2016 - Margarita Zavadskaya, Max Grömping, Ferran Martinez i Coma View

The Mechanism of Direct Democracy in Authoritarian Countries: The Case of the Constitutional Referendum in Azerbaijan - Samuele Dominioni View

Menus of Manipulation: Authoritarian Continuities in Central Asian Elections - Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Rob Kevlihan View

“The Election Game:” Authoritarian Consolidation Processes in Belarus - Sofie Bedford View

Guiding Voice to Exit: Elections of Sitz-Chairman in Moldova, Inc. - Ryhor Nizhnikau View

The Same but Different: “Re-understanding” Elections in Contemporary Post-Soviet Space - Ryhor Nizhnikau, Sofie Bedford View

Issue 3

Protest and Legitimacy: Emerging Dilemmas in Putin’s Third Term - Geir Flikke, Jardar Østbø View

Searching for a Russian National Idea: Putin Team Efforts and Public Assessments - Pat Willerton View

Putin and the Russian Mythscape: Dilemmas of Charismatic Legitimacy - Bo Petersson View

Russia’s Presidential Domestic Policy Directorate: HQ for Defeat-Proofing Russian Politics - Carolina Vendil Pallin View

Between Opportunist Revolutionaries and Mediating Spoilers: Failed Politicization of the Russian Truck Drivers’ Protest, 2015–2016 - Jardar Østbø View

“Monstrations for Mocracy”: Framing Absurdity and Irony in Russia’s Youth Mobilization - Geir Flikke View

Issue 2

Female Heroes in a Man's World: The Construction of Female Heroes in Kyrgyzstan's Symbolic Nation-building - Helge Blakkisrud, Nuraida Abdykapar kyzy View

Lake Baikal and Russia's Environmental Policy Process - Ellen Martus View

The Rise and Fall of Local Self-Government in Petrozavodsk - Mikhail Turchenko View

The Donbass War: Outbreak and Deadlock - Kimitaka Matsuzato View

Issue 1

Blogging Strategies and Political Tactics in Runet: Introduction to the Special Issue - Mikhail Suslov View

Leadership and Leaders in Networked Social Movements - Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa View

Parody Microbloggers as Chroniclers and Commentators on Russian Political Reality - Anastasia Denisova View

Blogging in Russian Academia: Practices of Self-Representation in Public Contexts - Galina Zvereva View

Holy Fools in the Digital Age: Strategies of Self-Positioning in the Russian-language Orthodox Blogosphere - Mikhail Suslov View

Self-Representation in the Web World of Opera: What Do the Blogs and Social Network Accounts of Famous Russian Opera Singers Tell Us About? - Irina Kotkina View

 

Volume 24, 2016

Issue 4

Karen Dawisha: Scholar, Intellectual, Institution-Builder - Venelin I. Ganev View

Diffusion-Proofing and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Valerie Bunce, Aida Hozić View

The Dynamics of Global-Domestic Institutional Interaction in Postcommunist Russia and Elsewhere - Gulnaz Sharafutdinova View

Assessing Foreign Policy Commitment Through Migration Policy in Russia - Caress Schenk View

The Rise of Vladimir Putin: Elite Politics in Early Postcommunism - Venelin I. Ganev View

Jumping out of the “Hobbesian Fishbowl” and Into the Fire: Lebanon, Elections, and Chronic Crisis - Stephen Deets, Jennifer Skulte-Ouaiss View

Issue 3

The Domestic Effects of the Russian Food Embargo - Susanne Wengle View

Canaries in a Coal Mine: The Uphill Struggle of Russia’s Non-System Liberals - Geir Flikke View

Framing Sanctions in the Russian Media: The Rally Effect and Putin’s Enduring Popularity - Anastasia Kazun View

Explanatory Factors for Electoral Turnout in the Russian Federation: The Regional Dimension - Petr Panov, Cameron Ross View

Kazakhstan’s Presidential Transition and the Evolution of Elite Networks - Michael Mesquita View

Is Russia Declining? - Simon Saradzhyan View

Issue 2

Analysis of Current Events: Structural Impediments to Reforms in Ukraine - Taras Kuzio View

Network Governance in Russia: Costs and Benefits - Elena Bogdanova, Olga Tkach, Aadne Aasland View

NGOs, Policy Entrepreneurship and Child Protection in Russia: Pitfalls and Prospects for Civil Socie - Elena Bogdanova, Eleanor Bindman View

“You are Responsible for Your People”: The Role of Diaspora Leaders in the Governance of Immigrant I - Mikkel Berg-Nordlie, Olga Tkach View

Post-Soviet “Political”?: “Social” and “Political” in the Work of Russian Socially Oriented CSOs - Meri Kulmala View

Domestic Politics in Crimea, 2009-2015 - Kimitaka Matsuzato View

Smart Sanctions against Russia: Human Rights, Magnitsky and the Ukrainian Crisis - Emma Gilligan View

Issue 1

Boris Nemtsov: A Tragedy of Resistance Introduction to the Special Section - Andrey Makarychev View

Boris Nemtsov, 1959-2015 The Rise and Fall of a Provincial Democrat - Andre Mommen View

Nemtsov: A Variety of Perspectives: Boris Nemtsov: A True Russian Patriot - David J. Kramer View

Boris Nemtsov: From Kremlin Heir to Dissident - Vladimir V. Kara-Murza View

Encountering Boris Nemtsov in 1992 - Howard Wiarda View

Nemtsov and Democracy in Nizhny Novgorod - Sharon Werning Rivera View

The Legacy of Boris Nemtsov - Stefan Meister View

Boris Nemtsov and the Chechen-Russian Conflict - Miguel Vázquez Liñán View

Boris Nemtsov: A Ukrainian Afterword - Yulia Kurnyshova View

Boris Nemtsov and the Reproduction of the Regional Intelligentsia - Tomila Lankina View

The Nemtsov Vote: Public Opinion and Pro-Western Liberalism’s Decline in Russia - Henry E. Hale View

Rocking the Sochi Olympics Narrative: Boris Nemtsov and Putin’s Sovereignty - Andrey Makarychev, Alexandra Yatsyk View

Oligarchs and Politics in Ukraine - Heiko Pleines View

 

Volume 23, 2015

Issue 4

Who Were the Protestors and What Did They Want?: Contentious Politics of Local Maidans across Ukraine, 2013-2014 - Olga Zelinska View

Ideological Change under Vladimir Putin in the Perspective of Social Identity Theory - Alfred Evans View

A Parting of Ways?: The Kremlin Leadership and Russia’s New-Generation Nationalist Thinkers - Igor Torbakov View

Violent Corporate Raiding in Russia: Preconditions and Protective Factors - Anton Kazun View

Issue 3

The Media Landscape in Central Asia: Introduction to the Special Issue - Peter Rollberg, Marlene Laruelle View

Mass Media Consumption in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan: The View from Below - Barbara Junisbai, Azamat Junisbai, Nicola Ying Fry View

Youth Media Consumption and Perceptions of Electoral Integrity in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan - Olena Nikolayenko View

The Persistence of Media Control Under Consolidated Authoritarianism: Containing Kazakhstan’s Digital Media - Luca Anceschi View

Friends, Foes, and Facebook: Blocking the Internet in Tajikistan - Abdulfattoh Shafiev, Marintha Miles View

In Search of Kazakhness: The Televisual Landscape and Screening of Nation in Kazakhstan - Marlene Laruelle View

Small Screen Nation Building: Astana – My Love - Peter Rollberg View

Social Media and Online Public Debate in Central Asia: A Journalist’s Perspective - Navbahor Imamova View

Issue 2

Russian Political Crowdfunding - Alexander V. Sokolov View

Post-Communist Leadership: A Case Study of Lithuania’s “White House” (1993–2014) - Ausra Park View

Putin and Russian Subnational Politics in 2014 - Joel C. Moses View

Centralized but Fragmented: The Regional Dimension of Russia’s “Party of Power” - Cameron Ross, Rostislav Turovsky View

Issue 1

Electoral Stakes, Labor Migration, and Voter Turnout: The 2011 Presidential Election in Kyrgyzstan - David Hil, Eugene Huskey View

Limits on the Democratizing Influence of the Internet: Lessons from Post-Soviet States - Rachel Vanderhill View

The Duality of Coercion in Russia: Cracking Down on “Foreign Agents” - Françoise Daucé View

The Paranoid State - S.J. Peter Rožič View

New Governance Options for Armenia Drawing on the UK’s Big Society - Arman Gasparyan View 

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Issue 4

Introduction: Authoritarian Modernization in Russia? - Vladimir Gel'man View

The Rise and Decline of Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia - Vladimir Gel'man View

Paradoxes of Agency:Democracy and Welfare in Russia - Meri Kulmanal, Markus Kainu, Jouko Nikula and Markku Kiviven View

Agency Matters: The Failure of Russian Regonal Policy Reforms - Andrey Starodubtsev View

Prospects for Ecological Modernization in Russia: Analysis of the Policy Environment - Nina Tynkkynen View

Science Fiction: President Medvedev's Campaign for Russia's "Technological Modernization" - Katri Pynnoniemi View

Democratization and War: The Chechen Wars' Contribution to Failing Democratization in Russia - Hanna Smith View

Issue 3

Reaffirming Russia's Remote Control: Exploring Kremlin Influence on Television Coverage of Russian-Japanese Relations and the Southern Kuril Islands Territorial Dispute - Tina Burrett View

Domestic Power Relations and Russia's Foreign Policy - Marcin Kaczmarski View

Corporate Raiding in Ukraine: Causes, Methods and Consequences - Matthew A. Rojansky View

Georgia Between Dominant-Power Politics, Feckless Pluralism, and Democracy - Christofer Berglund View

Beyond the Transition Paradigm: A Research Agenda for Authoritarian Consolidation - Thomas Ambrosio View

Issue 2

Introduction to the Special Issue: Media Democratization in Russia and Eurasia - Peter Rollberg View

Russia's Nongovernmental Media Under Assault - Maria Lipman View

Russia and the New Authoritarians - Jonathan Becker View

Media in Post-Soviet Belarus: Between Democratization and Reinforcing Authoritarianism - Oleg Manaev View

Ukraine's Media in the Context of Global Cultural Convergence - Marta Dyczok View

Networked Apathy: Georgian Party politics and the Role of Social Media - Kornely Kakachia, Tamara Pataraia, and Michael Cecire View

Glastnost 2.0 - Sarah Oates View

Coercion or Conformism? Censorship and Self Censorship among Russian Media Personalities and Reporters in the 2010s - Elisabeth Schimpfossl and Ilya Yablokov View

The "Russia Idea" on the Small Screen: Staging National Identity on Russia's TV - Marlene Laurelle View

Peter the Great, Statism, and Axiological Continuity in Contemporary Russian Television - Peter Rollberg View

Issue 1

The January 2013 Protests and Beyond - Sofie Bedford View

Challenging the Aliyev Regime: Political Opposition in Azerbaijan - Shahla Sultanova View

Two Can Play at That Game: Social Media Opportunities in Azerbaijan for Government and Opposition - Katy Pearce View

No Laughing Matter: Humor as a Means of Dissent in the Digital Era: The Case of Auhoritarian Azerbai - Katy Pearce and Adnan Hajizada View

Elections, Appointments, and Human Capital: The Case of Russian Mayors - Noah Buckley, Guzel Garifullina, Ora John Reuter, and Alexandra Shubenkova View

The Impact of Semi-Presidentialism on Democratic Consolidation in Poland and Ukraine - Oleksii Sydorchuk View

The Russian Orthodox Church and Contestations over History in Contemporary Russia - Igor Torbakov View

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Issue 4

Machine Politics: The Concept and Its Implications for Post-Soviet Studies - Grigorii V. Golosov View

Did the Internet Break the Political Machine? Moldova's 2009 "Twitter Revolution that Wasn't" - Henry E. Hale View

Getting the "Dough" and Saving the Machine: Lessons from Tatarstan - Gulnaz Sharafutdinova View

Making and Breaking the Political Machine in Kabardino-Balkaria - Georgi Derluguian and Sufian Zhemukhov View

Institutional Design and Party Membership Recuitment in Estonia - Alison Smith View

Issue 3

The End of the Soviet Union - Stanislau Shushkevich View

Russian Military Reform in the Aftermath of the 2008 Russia-Georgia War - Athena Bryce Rogers View

Patterns of Electoral Contestation in Russian Regional Assemblies: Between "Competitive" and "Hegemonic" Authoritarianism - Petr Panov and Cameron Ross View

Party System Institutionalization in Ukraine - Olena Rybiy View

The Negative Consequences of Proportional Representation in Ukraine - Serhij Vasychenko View

Issue 2

If Tomorrow Comes: Power Balance and Time Horizons in Ukraine's Constitutional Politics - Serhiy Kudelia View

Youth as an Agent for Change: The Next Generation in Ukraine - Nadia Diuk View

Public Procurement Reform in Ukraine: The Implication of Neopatrimonialism for External Actors - Susan Stewart View

Yushchenko versus Tymoshenko: Why Ukraine's National Democrats are Divided - Taras Kuzio View

Polyphonic Dichotomies: Memory and Identity in Today's Ukraine - Tanya Zaharchenko View

Why We Speak Like That: Ambiguous Discourses of an Ambivalent Transformation - Mykola Riabchuk View

Popular Assessments of Ukraine's Relations with Russia and the European Union under Yanukovych - Emmanuelle Armandon View

Issue 1

Nests of Democracy: The Institutional Interdependence of People's Rule in Europe and Eurasia - Alexander Sokolowski View

Institutional Persuasion to Support Minority Rights in Russia - Debra Javeline and Vanessa A. Baird View

The Representation of Political and Economic Elites in the Russian Federation Council - Cameron Ross and Rostislav Turovsky View

Post-Communist Informal Networking: Blat in the South Caucasus - Huseyn Aliyev View

Oil and Regime Stability in Azerbaijan - Farid Guliyev View

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Issue 4

Discussing Neopatrimonialism and Patronal Presidentialism in the Central Asian Context - Marlene Laurelle View

Kyrgyzstan: A Parliamentary System Based on Inter-Elite Consensus - Erica Marat View

The Kazakh Neopatrimonial Regime: Balancing Uncertainities among the "Family," Oligarchs and Technocrats - Sebastien Peyrouse View

The Elite in Post-Soviet and Post-Niyazow Turkmenistan: Does Political Culture Form a Leader? - Slavomir Horak View

The Sub-national Roots of Authoritarianism: Neopatrimonialism and Territorial Administration in Uzbekistan - Lawrence P. Markowitz View

Personal Networks of Agricultural Knowledge in the Cotton-Growing Communities of Southern Tajikistan - Hafiz Boboyorov View

Issue 3

Archival Policies and Historical Memory in the Post-Soviet Era - Mark Kramer View

What We Have (Not) Learned about Twentieth-Century Central Asian History - Marlene Laurelle View

Cultural Globalization in the Post-Soviet "South" - Douglas Blum View

Political Issues in Russia's Literary Discourse - Andrey Makarychev View

Toward Eurasian Cultural Studies: chances and Challenges - Peter Rollberg View

Reflecting on Twenty Years of Post-Soviet Experience - Yulia Nikitima View

Foreign Policy and Aging Central Asian Autocrats - Eric McGlinchey View

Evaluating Multi-Vectorism in the Foreign Policy of Post-Soviet Eurasian States - Segei Minasyan View

The Evolution of Russia's Place in the World, 1991-2011 - Ted Hopf View

Plea Bargaining Russian Style - Peter Solomon View

Issue 2

Introductory Letter - Henry E. Hale, Robert W. Orttung, and Fredo Arias-King View

Political Leadership After Communism - Timothy J. Colton View

Two Decades of Post-Soviet Regime Dynamics - Henry E. Hale View

From the Politics of Economic Reform to the Functioning of Political Economies - Andrew Barnes View

Rethinking Post-Soviet Politics from a Neopatrimonial Perspective - Oleksandr Fisun View

Is Putin's Regime Becoming More Like Brezhnev's? - Peter Reddaway View

Political Preferences and Party Development in Post-Communist States: A New Approach with an Illustration of the Russian Case - Regina Smyth View

Citizenship and the Social Contract in Post-Soviet Russia - Samuel A. Greene View

Twenty Years of Russian Legal Reform - William Pomeranz View

Society as an Anchor in Post-Soviet State-Building - Serhiy Kudelia View

Post-Communist Legacies and Political Behavior and Attitudes - Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua A. Tucker View

Lessons and Many More Questions about Nationalism and Self-Determination - Philip G. Roeder View

The Unexpectedly Underwhelming Role of Ethnicity in Russian Politics, 1991-2011 - Elise Giuliano and Dmitry Gorenburg View

The Unrecognized States of Eurasia as a Phenomenon of the USSR's Dissolution - Sergey Markedonov View

Nagorno-Karabakh: Twenty Years under Damocles' Sword - Anar Valiyev View

Issue 1

A Note from the Publisher - James S. Denton View

Truth Stumbles in the Street: Christian Democratic Activism in Belarus - Geraldine Fagan View

The Development of Russia's Child Protection and Welfare System - Ann A. Rudnicki View

Contending Agendas for the Black Sea Region: A Regional Alternative - Mustafa Aydin View

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Issue 4

The State of the Public Sphere in Russia - Elena Chebankova View

Russian Grand Strategy in the South Ossetia War - Brian J. Ellison View

Russia in Ukraine's Foreign Policy in 2010 as Seen in Political Discourse - Sergey Bozhko View

Europeanizatrion Through Socialization? The EU's Interaction with Civil Society Organizations in Armenia - Nicholas Ross Smith View

Issue 3

Is Nationalism Rising in Russian Foreign Policy?: The Case of Georgia - Luke March View

HIstory, Memory and National Identity: Understanding the Politics of History and Memory Wars in Post-Soviet Lands - Igor Torbakov View

Negotiating History: Memory Wars in the Near Abroad and Pro-Kremlin Youth Movements - Marlene Laurelle View

Making Sense of Nashi's Political Style: The Bronze Soldier and the Counter-Orange Community - Jussi Lassila View

Russian Radical Nationalist Interpretation of the French Riots of November 2005 - Lukasz Jurczyszyn View

Education in the Period of the Post-Soviet Transition in Ukraine - Benjamin Kutsyuruba View

Issue 2

From Viktor to Viktor: Democracy and Authoritarianism in Ukraine - Olexiy Haran View

The Color Revolution Virus and Authoritarian Antidote: Political Protest and Regime Counterattacks in Post-Communist Spaces - Abel Polese and Donnacha O Beachain View

The Rise and Fall of Power-Sharing Treaties Between Center and Regions in Post-Soviet Russia - Mizuki Chuman View

"Great Projects" Politics in Russia: History's Hardly Victorious End - Anatoly Reshetnikov View

Issue 1

Boxing Russia: Executive-Legislative Powers and the Categorization of Russia's Regime Type - William A. Clark View

The Meltdown of the Russian Federation in the Early 1990s: Nationalist Mayth Building and the Urals Republic Project - Alexander Kuznetsov View

Muddling Through the Shadow of the Past(s): Post-Communist Russia's Search for a New Regime Ideology - Cheng Chen View

Political Institutional Trust in the Post-Attempted-Coup Republic of Armenia - Katy E. Pearce View

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Issue 4

Rising Armenian-Georgian tensions and the Possibility of a New Ethnic Conflict - Artyom Tonoyan View

Struggling for Citizenship: Civic Participaton and the State in Russia - Suvi Salmenniemi View

Acquiring Assets, Debts and Citizens: Russia and the Micro-Foundations of Transnistria's Stalemated Conflict - Rebecca Chamberlain-Creanga and Lyndon K. Allin View

Higher Education Reforms in the Fight Against Corruption in Georgia - Mariam Orkodashvili View

Issue 3

Russia's Food Policies and Foreign Policy - Stephen Wegren View

Viktor Yanukovych's First 100 days: Back to the Past, But What's The Rush? - Taras Kuzio View

Reflections on Negotiations and Mediation: The Frozen Conflicts and European Security - William H. Hill View

Medvedev, Putin and Perestroika 2.0 - Gordon M. Hahn View

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Political Corruption of Russian Doctorates - Ararat L Osipian View

Issue 2

Open Borders, Closed Minds - Russia's Changing Migration Policies: Liberalization or Xenophobia? - Caress Schenk View

Meddling with Justice: Competitive Politics, Impunity, and Distrusted Courts in Post-Orange Ukraine - Alexei Trochev View

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Commission and Claims of Post-Soviet Secessionist Territories to Sovereignty - Keiji Sato View

The End of the Lithuanian Political "Patriarch's" Era: From Rise to Decline and Legacies Left Behind - Ausra Park View

Issue 1

Beyond Corruption: An Assessment of Russian Law Enforcement's Fight Against Human Trafficking - Lauren A McMarthy View

A Tale of Two Transitions: Exploring the Origins of Post-Communist Judicial Culture in Romania and the Czech Republic - Daniel J. Beers View

Be Careful What You Wish For: A Cautionary Tale of Post-Communist Judicial Empowerment - Maria Popova View

Enforcing Oil and Gas Contracts Without Courts: Reputational Constraints on Resource Nationalism in Russia and Azerbaijan - William Partlett Vie

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Issue 4

A U.S. Lawyer's Opinion of the Economic Impact of Technology and Corporate Law Developments in the USSR/Russia and China from the mid-1970s to Today - Thomas L. Shillinglaw View

Does "Populism" in Europe's New Democracies Really Matter? - Philip Dimitrov View

The Fundamentalist Utopia of Gennady Shimanov from the 1960s-1980s - Mikhail D. Suslov View

Strident, Ambiguous and Duplicitous: Ukraine and the 2008 Russia-Georgia War - Taras Kuzio View

Perestroika Began in Prague - Interview with Yevgeny Ambartsumov, Part I View

Issue 3

Still Staging Democracy: Contestation and Conciliation in Postwar Georgia - Cory Welt View

The Five-Day War and Transnational Politics: A Semiospace Spanning the Borders between Georgia, Russia, and Ossetia - Kimitake Matsuzato View

Georgian Politics since the August 2008 War - Svante E. Cornell and Niklas Nilsson View

Victim of a "War of Ideologies": Azerbaijan after the Russia-Georgia War - Anar Valiyev View

Issue 2

Understanding Party Politics in the Former Soviet Union: Authoritarianism, Volatility and Incentive - Max Bader View

At a Dead End: Russian Policy and the Russian Far East - Stephen Blank View

All Appeals Lead to Strasbourg? Unpacking the Impact of the European Court of Human Rights on Russia - Alexei Trochev View

President Medvedev and the Contested Constitutional Underpinnings of Russia's Power Vertical - William E. Pomeranz View

Issue 1

Imagined Communities in an Intergrating Baltic Region - Michael Ardovino View

Russian Babies, Russian Babes: Economic and Demographic Implications of International Adoption and International Trafficking for Russia - Judith Record McKinney View

Following Only Some of the Money in Russia - Ethan S. Burger, Esq View

Father Aleksandr Men and the Struggle to Recover Russia's Heritage - Wallace L. Daniel View

Volume 16, 2008

Issue 4

The Uncertain Future: Sino-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century - Herman Pirchner Jr. View

Political Graft and Education Corruption in Ukraine: Compliance, Collusion, and Control - Ararat L. Osipian View

The First Steps of Russia's Public Chamber: Representation or Coordination? - Alfred B. Evans Jr. View

Limited Choices: Russian Opposition Parties and the 2007 Duma Election - Nicklaus Laverty View

Have Putin's Policies on Local Government Changed the Way Yaroslavl Is Governed? - Jeffrey W. Hahn View

Issue 3

Introduction: Nontraditional Approaches to Russian Politics and Security - Harley Balzer View

The Double Monopoly and Its Technologists: The Russian Preemptive Counterevolution - Alexander Etkind and Andrei Shcherbak View

Standard Oil and Yukos in the Context of Early Capitalism in the United States and Russia - Vadim Volkov View

Changing Federalism and the Islamic Challenge in Tatarstan - Eduard Ponarin View

Patients in Contemporary Russian Reproductive Health Care Institutions: Strategies of Establishing Trust - Anna Temkina and Elena Zdravomyslova View

Kravchuk and Yeltsiin at Reelection - David C. Brooker View

Issue 2

Russia's Borderline Personality - Fredo Arias-King, Arlene King de Arias, and Fredo Arias de la Canal View

Was Liberty Really Bad for Russia? (Part II) - Leon Aron View

The Problem of Lasting Change: Civil Society and the Colored Revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine - Nicklaus Laverty View

From Stabilization to Marketization: The Political Economy of Reforms in Azerbaijan - Fuad Aliyev View

Can the Memory of a Historical Uprising Reduce Transitional Uncertainty? A Comparative Study of Hungary and the Former Soviet Union - Gergana Yankova View

Issue 1

Introduction to the Fifteenth Anniversary Issue - Fredo Arias-King View

The New Imperial Russia - Marshall I. Goldman View

Putin's Lurch toward Tsarism and Neoimperialism: Why the United States Should Care - Anders Aslund View

Was Liberty Really Bad for Russia? (Part I) - Leon Aron View

Russia and China in the Global Economy - Harley Balzer View

Anti-Americanism, Anti-Westernism, and Anti-Semitism among Russia's Muslims - Gordon Hahn View

Assessing the Courts in Russia: Parameters of Progress under Putin - Peter H. Solomon Jr. View

Is Russia Becoming a Normal Society? - Richard Rose View

Still "Treading Air"? Looking at the Post-Enlargement Challenges to Democracy in the Baltic States - David J. Galbreath View

Democratic Breakthroughs and Revolutions in Five Postcommunist Countries: Comparative Perspectives on the Fourth Wave - Taras Kuzio View

Volume 15, 2007

Issue 4

Introduction - Marshall I. Goldman View

The Dog Barks but the Caravan Moves On - Marshall I. Goldman View

Russia and the United States: No Longer Rivals, Not Yet Partners - Richard H. Matzke View

Russia and the European Union: An Outlook for Collaboration and Competition in European Natural Gas - Michael D. Cohen View

Energy Reform in Russia and the Implications for European Energy Security - Robert F. Price View

Natural Gas in the Context of Russia's Energy System - Leslie Dienes View

The Unified Energy Systems of Russia (RAO-UES) in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Nets of Interdependence - Theresa Sabonis-Helf View

Issue 3

Framing U.S.-Russian Security Cooperation: Neorealist and Neoliberal Alternatives to Navigating the New Security Terrain - Brad McAllister View

The Chechnya Conflict: Freedom Fighters or Terrorists? - James Hughes View

U.S. Interests in Central Asia and Their Challenges - Stephen Blank View

Inside Out: Domestic Political Change and Foreign Policy in Vladimir Putin's First Term - Samuel Charap View

Issue 2

"Sovereign Democracy" and Russia's Relations with the European Union - Derek Averre View

Municipal Reform in the Russian Federation and Putin's "Electoral Vertical," - Cameron Ross View

Victims of a Managed Democracy? Explaining the Electoral Decline of the Yabloko Party - David White View

Gorbachev, Lenin and the Break with Leninism - Archie Brown View

So What Changed? The 1998 Financial Crisis and Russia's Economic and Political Development - Neil Robinson View

Civic Trust and Governance in Armenia - Artak Shakaryan View

Issue 1

The Diffusion of Revolutions: Comparing Recent Regime Turnovers in Five Post-Communist Countries - Menno Fenger View

Orange People: A Brief History of Transnational Liberation Networks in East Central Europe - Fredo Arias-King View

Russia's Political Youths - Michael Schwirtz View

Through an Orange-Colored Lens: Western Media, Constructed Imagery, and Color Revolutions - Andres Schipani-Aduriz View

A Revolution of the Mind - Interview with Yulia Malysheva View

Russians Must Shed Fear - Interview with Maria Gaidar View

Revolution is Contagious - Interview with Marek Kapusta View

The Institutional Design of Russian Federalism: A Comparative Study of Three Republics; Tatarstan, Dagestan, and Chechnya - Stergos Kaloudis View

Volume 14, 2006

Issue 4

The Orange Revolution at the Crossroads - Taras Kuzio View

Why Donbass Votes for Yanukovych: Confronting the Ukrainian Orange Revolution - Ararat L. Osipian and Alexandr L. Osipian View

Mythmaking and Its Discontents in the 2004 Ukrainian Presidential Campaign - Olena Yatsunska View

The Genesis of the European Union's Relations with Ukraine and Belarus - Interview with Luis Moreno View

Inventing Akromiya: The Role of Uzbek Propagandists in the Andijon Massacre - Sarah Kendzior View

Geopolitics versus Democracy in Takjikistan - Shahram Akbarzadeh View

The Use of Rhetoric and the Mass Media in Russia's War on Terror - Greg Simons View

The Political Economy of the Resource Curse in Russia - Patreek Goorha View

Nationalism and the Transition to Democracy: The Post-Soviet Experience - Graeme Gill View

Issue 3

Differing Dynamics of Semipresidentialism across Euro/Eurasian Borders: Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland, Moldova, and Armenia - Kimitaka Matsuzato View

Democratization in Armenia: Some Trends of Political Culture and Behavior - Vahe Sahakyan and Arthur Atanesyan View

The South Caucasus: Problems of Stability and Regional Security - David Shahnazaryan View

The Trade-offs between Security and Civil Liberties in Russia's War on Terror: The Regional Dimension - Nabi Abdullaev and Simon Saradzhyan View

The Political Science of Russia-Belarus Relations: Insulating Minsk from a Color Revolution - Thomas Ambrosio View

Ideas of Revolutions and Revolutionary Ideas - Leon Aron View

Issue 2

Introduction - Gerard Libaridian View

Macroinstitutional Political Structures and Their Development in Armen - Alexander Markarov View

The Politics of Independence and Transition - Interview with Ara Sahakyan - Gerard Libaridian View

Economic Reform and War - Interview with Hrand Bagratyan - Gerard Libaridian View

Economic Challenges Faced by the New Armenian State - Armand Sarian View

Redefining Armenian National Security - Richard Giragosian View

From Ter-Petrossian to Kocharian: Explaining Continuity in Armenian Foreign Policy, 1991-2003 - Taline Papazian View

The Nagorno-Karabakh Settlement Revisited: Is Peace Achievable? - Levon Zourabian View

Dual Citizenship Debates in Armenia: In Pursuit of National Identity since Independence - Arus Harutyunyan View

The Armenian Media in Context: Soviet Heritage, the Politics of Transition, Democracy, and the Rule of Law - Marina Kurkchiyan View

From Post-Soviet Studies to Armenianology - Asbed Kotchikian View

Issue 1

Editor's Introduction - Sally W. Stoecker View

Russians and Their Party System - Stephen White View

In Search of Heroes: Cultural Politics and Political Mobilization of Youths in Contemporary Russia and Ukraine - Viktoriya Topalova View

Not Guilty Until the Supreme Court Finds You Guilty: A Reflection on Jury Trials in Russia - Kristi O'Malley View

What Russia Must Do to Fight Organized Crime - Thomas Firestone View

"Learning" to Offer an Alternative to Military Service: Norm Adoption in Russia - Flemming Splidsboel Hansen View

Antitrafficking Policies in Asia and the Russian Far East: A Comparative Perspective - Emily E. Schuckman View

The Russian Diaspora in Central Asia: Russian Compatriots and Moscow's Foreign Policy - Charles E. Ziegler View

The Warming of Turkish-Russian Relations: Motives and Implications - James W. Warhola and Wiliiam A. Mitchell View

Primakov Redux? Putin's Pursuit of "Multipolarism" in Asia - Mark N. Katz View

Volume 13, 2005

Issue 4

Kyrgyzstan's Tulip Revolution - Interview with Roza Otunbayeva - Eugene Huskey View

Russian Policy toward Ukraine during Elections - Taras Kuzio View

Georgia as a Laboratory for Democracy - James V. Wertsch View

Moldova's Orange Evolution - Interview with Iurie Rosca - Victoria Cusnir View

The Rise of Islamist Extremism in Kabardino-Balkariya - Gordon M. Hahn View

How Ukrainians View Their Orange Revolution: Public Opinion and the National Peculiarities of Citizenry Political Activities - Viktor Stepanenko View

Issue 3

Threats of Judicial Counterreform in Putin's Russia - Peter H. Solomon, Jr. View

Federalism and Electoral Authoritarianism under Putin - Cameron Ross View

The Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan: A Case Study in Economic Liberalization, Intraelite Cleavage, and Political Opposition - Barbara Junisbai and Azamat Junisbai View

Post-Soviet Azerbaijan: Transition to Sultanistic Semiauthoritarianism? An Attempt at Conceptualization - Farid Guliyev View

Orthodoxy and Global Pluralism - Peter L. Berger View

Orthodox Christianity, Civil Society, and Russian Democracy - Christopher Marsh View

Issue 2

Introduction - Gordon M. Hahn View

Builder and Destroyer: Thoughts on Gorbachev's Soviet Resolutions, 1985-1991 - Walter D. Connor View

Ordinary Russians? Rethinking August 1991 - Harley Balzer View

Addressing the Challenges of Russia's "Failing State": The Legacy of Gorbachev and the Promise of Putin - John P. Willerton, Mikhail Beznosov and Martin Carrier View

The Hazards of Half-Measures: Perestroika and the Failure of Post-Soviet Democratization - M. Steven Fish View

Perestroika and the Challenge of Democracy in Russia - Richard Sakwa View

Issue 1

The Perestroika of Demokratizatsiya - Fredo Arias-King View

Feeding the Hand that Bit You: Voting for Ex-Authoritarian Rulers in Russia and Bolivia - Amber L. Seligson and Joshua A. Tucker View

Semipresidentialism in Ukraine: Institutionalist Centrism in Rampant Clan Politics - Kimitaka Matsuzato View

From Disengagement to Active Economic Competition: Russia's Return to the South Caucasus and Central Asia - Jeronim Perovic View

Is Putin Pursuing a Policy of Eurasianism? - Matthew Schmidt View

The New Russian Identity and the United States - Vladimir Zvonovsky View

Breaking the Postcommunist Liminality: The Transformation Process in Eastern Europe - Jiri S. Melich View

Russia's Political Party System as (Continued) Impediment to Democratization: the 2003 Duma and 2004 Presidential Elections in Perspective - Jonathan W. Riggs and Peter J. Schraeder View

Conclusion - Julia Kilmer View