Fall 2009: In This Issue

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

There are authors who claim that a populist revolution has already started in the new democracies of Europe—countries that, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, aspired to join or joined NATO or the European Union.
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Strident, Ambiguous and Duplicitous: Ukraine and the 2008 Russia–Georgia War

Taras Kuzio

Russia's August 2008 invasion of Georgia and de facto annexation of South Ossetia and Abkhazia will undoubtedly have repercussions for Ukaine’s security.
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A US Lawyer's Opinion of the Economic Impact of Technology and Corporate Law Developments in the USSR/China from the mid-1970s to Today
Thomas L. Shillinglaw
The Fundamentalist Utopia of Gennady Shimanov from the 1960s-1980s
Mikhail D. Suslov
The Five-Day War and Transnational Politics
Kimitaka Matsuzato
Still Staging Democracy: Contestation and Conciliation in Postwar Georgia
Cory Welt
Victim of a "War of Ideologies": Azerbaijan after the 2008 Russia-Georgia War
Anar Valiyev
Georgian Politics Since the 2008 War
Svante Cornell and Niklas Nilsson
Russia and the European Court of Human Rights
Alexei Trochev
Imagined Communites in an Integrating Baltic Region
Michael Ardovino
Following Only Some of the Money in Russia
Ethan S. Burger, Esq.
The Uncertain Future: Sino-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Herman Pirchner Jr.
The First Steps of Russia's Public Chamber: Representation or Coordination?
Alfred B. Evans Jr.
Have Putin's Policies on Local Government Changed the Way Yaroslav is Governed?
Jeffrey W. Hahn

Medvedev and Russia's Power Vertical
William E. Pomeranz
Russian Babies, Russian Babes: Economic and Demographic Implications of International Adoption and International Trafficking for Russia
Judith Record McKinney
Father Aleksandr Men and the Struggle to Recover Russia's Heritage
Wallace L. Daniel
Political Graft and Education Corruption in Ukraine: Compliance, Collusion, and Control
Arrat L. Osipian
Limited Choices: Russian Opposition Parties and the 2007 Duma Election
Nicklaus Laverty