Thomas de Waal

Thomas de Waal is a senior associate for the Caucasus with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His book, The Caucasus: An Introduction, will be published this fall by Oxford University Press.


Reviews

The typical vision of Chechnya: a violence-filled land of terrorists fighting for independence from the Kremlin’s iron grip. The reality is a land torn between nationalism and a Russian civic identity.

Last summer, Russia and Georgia came to blows. Tbilisi’s pro-American president believed NATO would protect him in a fight with the big, bad bear.

Commentary

Faced with a troubled region, high-maintenance allies and an increasingly opaque government, Baku sees trouble ahead.

President Saakashvili's recent Washington visit has drawn the White House deeper into domestic Georgian politics.

The post-Soviet countries are grown-up, though not necessarily as the West might have wished.

Poverty and economic ruin are the least of Armenia's many problems.

Boris Ivanishvili has taken just two weeks to unsettle the entire Georgian political scene.

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May 26, 2012