The (Inter-Communist) Cold War on Ice: Soviet-Czechoslovak Ice Hockey...
CWIHP Working Paper No. 69, "The (Inter-Communist) Cold War on Ice: Soviet-Czechoslovak Ice Hockey Politics, 1967-1969" presents new archival evidence on hockey’s role in the turbulent...
View ArticleFrom Memory to Mending: Lessons for Eastern Europe from Germany's Foreign...
Event cosponsored by American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Society, Culture and Politics Program and Kennan Institute.Directions: Directions to the Wilson Center
View ArticleEU Progress Report on Eastern Partnership States
Mapping the development of the Eastern Partnership initiative, the European Commission released a progress report on the six Eastern Partnership States: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova,...
View ArticleEvent Report and Transcript: Assessing Warsaw Pact Military Forces
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View ArticleEurope in a Multipolar World
"Alternatively, if Europe is unable to resolve the Ukraine crisis with diplomacy, its global influence, and that of Russia, will surely fade. Russia has reminded the world that it is possible to bully...
View ArticleEastern Europe’s Most Difficult Transition: Public Health and Demographic...
Dr. Murray Feshbach was one of the first scholars to point out the devastating political and socio-economic effects of state communism’s failure to seriously address decaying public health and...
View ArticleFrom Sarajevo, 1914 to Southeastern Europe, 2014: Wars, Transitions and...
In Balkans into Southeastern Europe, 1914-2014, A Century of War and Transition (Palgrave, 2014), John Lampe revises and expands his 2006 volume to reconsider the region's full century since the...
View ArticleUkraine’s Battle for the East is Over
Whether or not the latest ceasefire between Ukraine and the separatists holds, it is hard to see the evolution of this conflict as anything other than a victory for Vladimir Putin. In recent months it...
View ArticleDoes Democracy Matter?
Negative experiences from state-building projects in Iraq and Afghanistan, the mixed record of democratic change in the former Soviet Union and the aftermath of Arab Spring have led many to question...
View ArticleOffsite Event: Scholarly Research, Writing, and Publishing 25 Years After the...
Our colleagues at The George Washington University's National Security Archive will host "Scholarly Research, Writing, and Publishing 25 Years After the Collapse of Communism" on Thursday, 6 November...
View ArticleDemocracy Bridge Building: Arabs, Central and Eastern European Democrats
Professor Eliot Sorel summarizes the 2006 Ratiu Democracy Lecture, given by Professor Saad Eddin Ibrahim of American University in Cairo and entitled "Are There Democracy Lessons Arabs Can Learn from...
View ArticleThe Euromissile Crisis and the End of the Cold War
In the late 1970s, new generations of nuclear missile delivery systems were proposed for deployment across Eastern and Western Europe. The ensuing controversy over their deployment grew into a key...
View ArticleBuilding Trust: Tax Compliance Issues in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine
Interview with Marc Berenson, Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, and Senior Lecturer in the Russia Institute, King’s College London, on August 27, 2014. Kennan Institute Project “Taxes and Trust:...
View ArticleFalling Oil Prices: Changing Implications for Global Producers
On Wednesday, February 4, the Wilson Center will host a conference to discuss the effects of the falling price of oil around the world. Panelists from the regions themselves will discuss the economic...
View ArticleBold Dialog Needed in Budapest
The new U.S. Ambassador to Hungary arrived in Budapest after an 18-month hiatus in American diplomatic presence on the highest level. Colleen Bradley Bell, a television producer (most notably of the...
View ArticleSouthern European Energy Corridor: Status, Prospects and Geopolitics
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From Free Europe to Free Poland: Free Europe Committee in the Cold War
From Free Europe to Free Poland: Free Europe Committee in the Cold War PrefaceSummary of Panel Discussions
View ArticleThe Regional Cold Wars in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East: Crucial...
This book systematically explores the mutual interconnections of events in diverse regional Cold War theaters—both the horizontal connections between regions and the vertical connections of each...
View ArticleSarajevo Roses, Tahrir Protests & Djerbahood: Injustice, Youth & Resilience
Within the past quarter century, two tectonic shifts have shaken international affairs: the end of the Cold War in 1991 and the uprisings across the Arab world in 2011. These groundbreaking changes...
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