Connections
Contents
Norms versus Interests: The Ambiguous Nature of NATO’s Democratic Conditionality in Armenia
The South Caucasus Between Russia and the West: How Pragmatic are the Stakeholders’ Approaches?
Sailing the South Caucasus through Troubled Waters towards Regional Integration
Russia vs. EU/US through Georgia and Ukraine
Eurasian Economic Union and the Difficulties of Integration: The Case of South Ossetia and Abkhazia
Return to Babel: The Race to Integration in the Southern Caucasus
The Early Years
The Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes, based at the George C. Marshall Center in Garmisch, Germany, is leading an innovative and unprecedented program for defense education reform in five Partner countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Moldova). The modus operandi for these efforts includes finding fertile ground for defense reform in other countries beyond the Partnership for Peace nations. Defense education in general is gaining attention as a useful tool for security policy makers. Why and how this is happening is an intriguing story that begs to be told. This article attempts to tell that story.
It begins, as do so many post-Cold War accounts, with the demise of the Warsaw Pact and the USSR in 1991 and the steadily growing interest from Central and Eastern European countries in NATO membership. At the same time, the newly independent sovereign states of the USSR, the former Soviet Socialist Republics, began to choose their own paths. Some of them installed democratic systems of government and links to the West, while others retained authoritarian rulers.
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European and Eurasian Security: Viewpoints from Russia
Connections presents diverse views on defense and security by authors from NATO and partner countries from the Partnership for Peace and beyond. For this particular issue we invited authors from universities and research centers of the Russian Federation to express their views on curr...
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