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Geopolitics / Europe

Bosnian Elections See Moderate Gains, but Little Hope for Change

Oct 08, 2010 at 13:43 | Global Intelligence Report

More than 8,000 candidates from 39 political parties and 11 coalitions competed for seats in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s central parliament and tripartite presidency during 3 October elections. The Bosnian Croat and Bosniak…

Russia-Germany Nord Stream Pipeline Under Way

Oct 01, 2010 at 11:03 | Global Intelligence Report

Russia has succeeded in getting funding for the Nord Stream gas pipeline (formerly North European Gas Pipeline, NEGP), which will go under the Baltic Sea to Germany. It obtained environmental…

Floating Alternative to Nabucco Pipeline Materializes

Sep 30, 2010 at 11:59 | Global Intelligence Report

The “floating alternative to the US-sponsored Nabucco” pipeline network to bring Central Asian gas supplies to Europe and the Mediterranean has begun to materialize, further transforming or limiting the prospects…

Rebuilding the Greek Economy

Sep 27, 2010 at 09:21 | Open Democracy

The way we talk about the economy has changed dramatically in the past few months. Before our own debt crisis erupted, public discourse was not very different from that in…

Scepticism Over Stress Testing of European Banks

Aug 09, 2010 at 09:20 | Robert M Cutler

The results of the bank stress test in Europe have been greeted with widespread skepticism; even though financial markets seem calmer, the system is not yet out of the woods.…

Defense and Security in the EU

Jun 23, 2010 at 08:26 | ISN Security Watch

As EU defense ministers prepare for formal meetings within the Foreign Affairs Council, the hope is that this will provide political impetus for the refinement and further development of the…

The Battle over Press Freedom in Azerbaijan

Jun 12, 2010 at 09:04 | ISN Security Watch

With elections coming up, the government of Azerbaijan may have reason to fear new freedoms provided by the internet's social networking tools. International journalists’ groups and Azerbaijani opposition figures are…

Turkey’s Growing Influence in the Balkans

Jun 09, 2010 at 08:11 | Charles Kennedy

Over the past two years, Turkey has launched a massive political, social, and economic offensive across the Balkans, focusing primarily on Bosnia-Herzegovina. More than two decades after Turkey first formally…

Poland’s Growing Military Power

Jun 06, 2010 at 11:30 | ISN Security Watch

Experiencing anxiety following the halting of US missile defense plans in Poland, Warsaw uses US technology to make its air force the biggest by far in Central Europe. Since the…

The EU’s Growing Impotence

Jun 06, 2010 at 04:05 | Ahto Lobjakas

At one level, the proposal by the EU high representative for foreign policy, Catherine Ashton, to abolish EU special representatives for the South Caucasus and Moldova is no more than…

Russia Supports New UN Sanctions Against Iran

Jun 05, 2010 at 10:31 | Charles Kennedy

INCIDENT: Iran has disputed a recent report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) claiming that it intends to use depleted fuel rods for pyroprocessing experiments, as a proposed round…

Peace and Stability in the Balkans

May 24, 2010 at 09:09 | ISN Security Watch

The Istanbul Declaration, signed by Turkey, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, calls for peace and economic development in a bid for regional stability and EU integration. But there are always spoilers. The…

European Single Currency Reaches a Turning Point

May 22, 2010 at 09:32 | Breffni O'Rourke

There have always been doubts about whether the euro could succeed. It presently binds together 16 European Union members, from top world economies like Germany, to stumbling, mismanaged economies like…

After 30 Years Thatcherism Comes to an End

May 15, 2010 at 08:51 | ISN Security Watch

This week's creation of a Conservative led coalition with the Liberal Democrats has brought the period associated with Margaret Thatcher after her election in 1979 to an end. The UK…

Kyrgyzstan Today: The New Administration’s Pressing Problems

May 05, 2010 at 11:09 | John Daly

KYRGYZSTAN TODAY Kyrgyzstan’s interim government, having toppled the corrupt regime of former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev in Bishkek on April 7-8, faces many daunting challenges, from the economy gutted by Bakiyev’s…

Nazarbayev's Successful Diplomacy in Kyrgyzstan Signals Deeper Strategic Shifts

Apr 19, 2010 at 19:00 | Roger N. McDermott

The recent crisis and instability in Kyrgyzstan, highlighted the fragility of security and the potential weakness of the political systems throughout the region and exposed new dimensions in the conduct…

Moscow Ascending: How Turkey's New Axis With Russia Affects US Interests

Apr 16, 2010 at 19:00 | Gregory R. Copley

We have, in the past year, entered an entirely new dynamic in Eastern Mediterranean and South-East European strategic affairs. We are in a period and a region in which Russia,…

Floating Alternative to Nabucco Pipeline Moving Toward Implementation

Apr 06, 2010 at 19:00 | Yossef Bodansky

Romania, Azerbaijan, and Georgia on April 13, 2010, took a major step toward the implementation of a substitute energy distribution network to substitute for the US-backed Nabucco strategic gas pipeline…

Kyrgyzstan: Business, Corruption and the Manas Airbase

Dec 31, 1969 at 18:00 | John Daly

Kyrgyzstan’s mass anti-government protests last week were essentially the culmination of more than a decade of disillusionment and dissatisfaction that accumulated in the nation’s political, economic and social spheres from…

The Aftermath of the Kyrgyz Revolution - The Lesser Players

Apr 13, 2010 at 19:00 | John Daly

(Part 2 in a three-part series) The recent unrest in Kyrgyzstan has largely been portrayed as an epic clash between U.S. and Russian interests. That said, interest in events in…

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