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Vice President Biden's March visit to Moldova, coupled with renewed interest within Congress and the European Union, has raised the prospect of a breakthrough in Moldova's secessionist region, Transnistria.
As Georgia enters a period of transition, with upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, the current government has made good progress in building a functioning state that delivers services to citizens, but Georgia’s economic picture is increasingly uncertain.
The West must look ahead to when President Lukashenka is no longer in office and help the people of Belarus develop its civil society.
As both Georgia and Russia head toward elections in 2012, their politicians face a dangerous temptation to use the smoldering conflict between the two nations for domestic political purposes.
The statement on Nagorny Karabakh by Presidents Medvedev, Obama, and Sarkozy at the G8 summit in Deauville, France is the most serious international declaration on the conflict in many years.
As the Georgian parliament contemplates passing a resolution declaring the 1864 Russian deportations of the Circassians to be genocide, it risks setting a precedent for the Abkhaz, an ethnic group also deported by the Russian Empire in 1867.
As Belarus faces increased isolation and potential economic collapse, it is time for the international community to come together and seek a least bad outcome for the short term, while laying the foundation for long-term positive change.
The death of Osama bin Laden strikes several blows against global terrorism and provides President Obama the opportunity to relaunch his dialogue with the Muslim world.
In order for the EU to succeed in promoting political and economic reform in several eastern European countries, it must find a way to offer significant incentives to the political elites of those nations even as it withholds the possibility of EU membership.
Generations of state socialism had the effect of devaluing public space and creating a sharp split between the public and private spheres. This divide still exists today and helps explain the apathetic political culture that exists in most of the former Soviet Union.