Russia’s Pragmatic Reimperialization

Janusz Bugajski

“The current trend of the Kremlin is to rather formally distance itself from the North Caucasus”, Interview with Dr. Emil Souleimanov , Charles University, Prague.

The Fall of the Berlin Wall: Twenty Years of Reform in Central and Eastern Europe

Dr. Aleksandr Shkolnikov,Anna Nadgrodkiewicz

European Foreign Policy After Lisbon: Strengthening the EU as an International Actor

Kateryna Koehler

Kazan: The Religiously Undivided Frontier City

Matthew Derrick

International Language Rights Norms in the Dispute over Latinization Reform in the Republic of Tatarstan

Dilyara Suleymanova

Russia’s National Security Strategy to 2020: A Great Power in the Making?

Sophia Dimitrakopoulou,Dr. Andrew Liaropoulos

Puzzles of State Transformation: The Cases of Armenia and Georgia

Dr. Nicole Gallina

Enforceability of a Common Energy Supply Security Policy in the EU: Intergovernmentalist Assesement

Eda Kusku

“Assembling” a Civic Nation in Kazakhstan: The Nation-Building Role of the Assembly of the Peoples of Kazakhstan

Nathan Paul Jones

Note from the Editor-in-Chief

Nasimi Aghayev

The Georgia Crisis: A New Cold War on the Horizon?

Houman A. Sadri,Nathan L. Burns

Russian Energy Politics and the EU: How to Change the Paradigm

Vladimer Papava,Michael Tokmazishvili

Authoritarianism and Foreign Policy: The Twin Pillars of Resurgent Russia112

Luke Chambers

Climbing the Mountain of Languages: Language Learning in Georgia

Hans Gutbrod,Malte Viefhues,CRRC

Note from the Editor-in-Chief

Nasimi Aghayev

Book review - When Empire Meets Nationalism. Power Politics in the US and Russia By Didier Chaudet, Florent Parmentier & Beno t Pelopidas

Review by Samuel Lussac

Book Review - "The Caucasus: An Introduction" By Frederik Coene

Review by Alexander Jackson

Book Review - The Guns of August 2008- Russia’s War in Georgia, Edited by Svante E. Cornell and Frederick Starr

Review by Till Bruckner

Note from the Editor-in-Chief

Nasimi Aghayev

Georgia and the Systemic Impact of the Financial Crisis

Marco Giuli

Georgia & Russia: Contradictory Media Coverage of the August War

Hans-Georg Heinrich & Kirill Tanaev

Turkey: Regional Elections and the Kurdish Question

Eddy Ekrem Güzeldere

Russia, EU, NATO and the Strengthening of the CSTO in Central Asia

Irina Ionela Pop

Book Review - "Али и Нино" by Курбан Саид (Mосква: ООО Ад Маргинем Пресс ; 2008; ISBN: 978-5-91103-039; 336 с.)

Nurangiz Khodzharova

“There has never been an unbiased Russian mediation in South Caucasian conflicts”, Interview with Dr Martin Malek

Dr Martin Malek

“Widespread discontent in Russia may well lead to further resentment towards groups of Caucasian origin”, Interview with Katerina Strani, Researcher, Greek Parliament

Katerina Strani

Book Review - "China’s Energy Geopolitics: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Central Asia" by Thrassy N. Marketos (ed.) (Oxon & NY: Routledge, 2008, 184 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-45690-6)

Jan Künzl

Poverty Reduction Through Private Sector Development in Georgia: Policy, Practice and Perspectives

Vladimer Papava

Kosovo Precedent - Applicable in Many Parts of the World, But not Directly in the South Caucasus

Dominik Tolksdorf

The Kosovo Precedent – Directly Applicable to Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Sebastian Schaeffer

Book Review - "The Central Caucasus - Problems of Geopolitical Economy" by Eldar Ismailov / Vladimer Papava, (New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2008, ISBN13: 978-1604566062, 131 pp, $79.00)

Jan Künzl

Dutch Disease in Uzbekistan? A Computable General Equilibrium Model of Effects of Foreign Investment into Uzbekistan's Gas Sector

Dr. Michael Barry

Resolving Post-Soviet “Frozen Conflicts”: Is Regional Integration Helpful?

Dr. Mykola Kapitonenko

Battle of Two Logics: Appropriateness And Consequentiality in Russian Interventions in Georgia

Dr. Robert Nalbandov

How the West was Won: China’s expansion into Central Asia

Henryk Szadziewski

Democratic Transition in Georgia: Post-Rose Revolution Internal Pressures on Leadership

Jesse David Tatum

Victimisation of Female Suicide Bombers: The Case of Chechnya

Nino Kemoklidze

Decision-Making and Georgia's Perpetual Revolution: The Case of IDP Housing

Till Bruckner

The End of the Frozen Cold War?

Dr. Vladimer Papava

The Merging of Russia’s Regions as Applied Nationality Policy: A Suggested Rationale

Matthew Derrick

External Powers’ Influence Upon the Reform and Political Elites in Present Kyrgyzstan

Dr. Irina Morozova

Globalization and National Competitiveness of Georgia

Dr. George Ivaniashvili-Orbeliani

Book Review - "The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law " by Dieter Fleck (ed), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, Pp. Xvii-770. ISBN 978-0-19-923250-5)

Pierre-Emmanuel Dupont

Split in the Russian Political Tandem Putin-Medvedev?

Dr. Eberhard Schneider

Georgia & Russia: The “Unknown” Prelude To The “Five Day War”

Dr Martin Malek

Diaspora Design versus Homeland Realities: Case Study of Armenian Diaspora

Bahar Baser,Dr. Ashok Swain

Competing Islamic Traditions in the Caucasus

Dobroslawa Wiktor-Mach

The European Union’s Eastern Partnership: Chances and Perspectives

Marcin ？apczyński

“Federalisation Remains the Best Way for Georgia to Avoid Outbreaks of Further Internal Disputes” , Interview with Prof. George Hewitt

Prof. George Hewitt