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
Transparent and accountable, efficient and effective Defense Institution Building (DIB) is one of the shared values that binds together NATO and Partners, an essential part of defense management and reform. This special DIB issue of Connections brings contributions on NATO's approach to DIB as a Whole-of-Government tool for projecting stability and countering hybrid threats, the rise of defense institution and capacity building in the US as a premier DOD discipline, and the need to invest in strategic communication, with account of specific cultures, to counter propaganda and disinformation. Another article examines the DIB experience in the Baltics and its applicability in Georgia and Ukraine. The final three articles deal entirely with the DIB experience in Ukraine, identifying success stories and disappointments not only on the Ukrainian side, but also in the way foreign DIB and related assistance is provided.
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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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