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

Society

Chechens I Used to Know

| 04.19.11

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.

Society

Missiles Over Tskhinvali

| 04.20.10

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

Society

The Azerbaijan Dilemma

| 04.02.12

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

Global Governance

More than Georgia on Obama's Mind

| 02.23.12

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

Society

Talking to Grown-Ups in the Caucasus

| 12.15.11

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

Society

Armenia's Population Drain

| 11.21.11

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

Politics

Georgia's Political Shake Up: Enter the Oligarch

| 10.27.11

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

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